Draft:Matteo de Mayda

Matteo de Mayda
Matteo de Mayda (born 1984, Treviso, Italy) is an Italian photographer based in Venice. His visual research focuses on social and environmental causes. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and received several awards for his work.

In 2019, he published Era Mare, a book documenting the high water in Venice. In 2020, ARTRIBUNE selected him as the best young Italian photographer of the year. In 2021, he was chosen as one of the FUTURES talents by CAMERA (Italian Center for Photography) and won the Italian Sustainability Photo Award with There's no calm after the storm. In 2022, he won the British Journal of Photography International Award and was shortlisted for the Gabriele Basilico Prize.

In 2024, Matteo de Mayda published "Brilla Sempre", a book about his mother, Serenella, who passed away in 2023 after eighteen years of illness. de Mayda's photographic work focused on his mother's workplaces, where she worked as a cleaner in residential buildings. He describes this book as "a form of group therapy, where building administrators and tenants, who generously remembered her, took the place of a therapist and patients."

Still in 2024, he will publish the book There's no calm after the storm thanks to funds raised through a crowdfunding campaign. By mixing archival and reportage photos, satellite and microscope images, community testimonials, and scientific theories, There's no calm after the storm investigates the long-term consequences of the Vaia storm. Produced over five years, its aim is to analyze what happened with the necessary time to weigh causes, responsibilities, consequences, opportunities, and future perspectives, raising awareness among the public about the climate emergency and the delicate balance between human action and ecosystem resilience.

Matteo de Mayda has taught at several private and public institutions, including La Sapienza University in Rome, IUAV University of Venice, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan, and Spazi Fotografici.

de Mayda has collaborated with numerous international magazines including The New York Times, Financial Times Magazine, Internazionale, M Le magazine du Monde, Zeit and Vogue.

Books

 * There's no calm after the storm (bruno, 2024)
 * Brilla Sempre (self-published, 2024)
 * The Passenger Venezia (Iperborea, 2023)
 * Era Mare | It Was Sea (bruno, 2020)

Public Collections

 * MUFOCO - Museo Fotografia Contemporanea
 * Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia

Awards

 * 2023: Artist residency at Osservatorio OMNE (Italy)
 * 2022: BJP International Photography Award - Single Image Winner
 * 2022: Gabriele Basilico Prize - Fourth Edition - Finalist
 * 2021: Italian Sustainability Photo Award Grant winner
 * 2021: FUTURES 2021 Talent
 * 2020: Best young Italian photographer of 2020 (Artribune)
 * 2020: Winner of REFOCUS award by MiBACT
 * 2020: Finalist at the Head On Photo Awards
 * 2020: Winner at Inner Outlook
 * 2019: National Geographic Prize (Cortona on the Move), Finalist
 * 2008 and 2014: First prize at the Bevilacqua La Masa

Exhibitions

 * 2024: Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
 * 2023: CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin (Italy)
 * 2023: Gibellina Photoroad, Trapani (Italy)
 * 2023: IMP Festival, Padua (Italy)
 * 2022: Design Museum, London (UK)
 * 2022: Seen Fifteen, London (UK)
 * 2022: Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (Australia)
 * 2022: Cripta747 (in collaboration with CAMERA), Turin (Italy)
 * 2021: KIC, Skopje (North Macedonia)
 * 2021: MUFOCO, Milan (Italy)
 * 2021: La Triennale, Milan (Italy)
 * 2020: Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark)
 * 2020: Fotobok Festival, Oslo (Norway)
 * 2020: Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (Australia)
 * 2019-2020: The Gallery by Generali, Milan (Italy)
 * 2019: La Fabbrica dello Zucchero, Rovigo (Italy)
 * 2017: Gwangju Biennale (South Korea)
 * 2016: 15th Architecture Biennale, Venice (Italy)
 * 2015: Museo dell'Università La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
 * 2014-2015: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy)
 * 2014: National Architecture/Design Centre (Sweden)
 * 2013: United Nations, Geneva (Switzerland)

Lectures / Talks

 * 2023: CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
 * 2023: Ca' Foscari University, Venice
 * 2023: IUAV University of Venice
 * 2023: IMP Festival, Padua
 * 2022: ADI Design Museum, Milan
 * 2021: Triennale, Milan
 * 2021: La Sapienza University in Rome
 * 2021: MUFOCO - Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan
 * 2021: CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
 * 2021: RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts
 * 2021: IED - Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan
 * 2020: FABRICA, online for COVID-19
 * 2019: UCEN, Manchester
 * 2019: La Fabbrica dello Zucchero, Rovigo
 * 2018: Environmental Justice, Taranto
 * 2018: Festival dei diritti umani, Milan
 * 2017: EDCH Conference, Munich
 * 2017: FABRICA, Treviso