Metropolitan Photos RM#69-73, BY #22-26 (Swiss Stories 2015, by Matteo Fieni)

Metropolitan Photos RM#69-73, BY #22-26

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Photo / Swiss Stories

2015

Matteo Fieni

Metropolitan Portraits (RM) began in 2010 as a long-term, serial conceptual project (documentary, documentary, and portraiture). The concept involves the formal reiteration of a fixed point of reference (a subject taken from the context) stretched across a constantly shifting hyperplane (the background). The work is being sequentially archived and accessible online at http://www.ritrattimetropolitani.ch. The sessions selected for this year's Swiss Press Award are part of a larger sub-project called From B to Y, which took the artist from the Balkans to Normandy (11 countries, 31 RM sessions) during a four-month journey. The selected sessions are those conducted along the route through Switzerland.

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Matteo Fieni / Swiss Press Award

Matteo Fieni

Fotografo, Lugano, 1976

Matteo Fieni (*1976) uses photography with an iconoclastic approach. His pictures describe basic and essential contents and try to break with traditional formal structures. Fieni considers his hometown and work base Lugano as a place between two cultures, where the tension catholicism - protestantism is present. In his engaged and lively research he creates pictures that combine the intensity of his 'southern' caracter with 'nordic' concepts of imagemaking. The investigation of this clash between concepts leads him to a genuine form of photography, displaying landscape, urbanity and human portraits. He graduated in photography at the IED in Milan, and studied communication science at USI (Università Svizzera italiana). Fieni is the artistic director of the no profit association Across Photography 'AP' in Geneva, member of Switzerlands professional jouranlists association 'Impressum' and the Swiss visual artist 'Visarte'.

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Metropolitan Photos RM#69-73, BY #22-26 (Swiss Stories 2015, by Matteo Fieni) - Swiss Press Award