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Candid City (World 2017, by Matteo Fieni) - Swiss Press Award

The official photographer (Viron) takes the first portrait of the sick.
Matteo Fieni
The official photographer (Viron) takes the first portrait of the sick.
Photo / World
2017

Candid City

Matteo Fieni

Beginning with an analysis of the ritual of photographing the sick at Lourdes during the 140th anniversary of the Marian apparition, the photographer delves into this area, which is a metaphor for Christian culture and now also a "market" for the trade of religious iconography. The use of open flash, often employed in Martin Parr's work, aims to highlight the hyperbole of iconoduly.

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Candid City

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Photo / World
2017

Matteo Fieni

Beginning with an analysis of the ritual of photographing the sick at Lourdes during the 140th anniversary of the Marian apparition, the photographer delves into this area, which is a metaphor for Christian culture and now also a "market" for the trade of religious iconography. The use of open flash, often employed in Martin Parr's work, aims to highlight the hyperbole of iconoduly.

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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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