Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez

Photographer

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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez is a photographer (b. 1989) in Bogota, Colombia, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Current finalist of the Aperture Portfolio Prize 2022.

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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez is a photographer (b. 1989) in Bogota, Colombia, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work in medium and large format explores unassuming scenes, often using poetic devices bringing new value to overlooked settings in regions with historical background. His most frequent subject is how mankind and nature interact and coexist, and he explores how time, history and environmental changes alter the relations between the two.

Ruiz Gonzalez’s is one of the current finalists of Aperture Portfolio Prize 2022, Palm Photo Prize 2022, Lucie Foundation Carte Blanche lifestyle catergory and Film Photo Award - visionary project 2022. He is one of the winners of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2021, Passepartout catalog prize 2021 and one of the 30 single images winners of Portrait of Humanity organized by the British Journal of Photography. In previous years he was selected as a grantee for National Geographic, Pulitzer Center and The New York Foundation of the Arts.

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