Matteo De Mayda

Photographer

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Matteo de Mayda is a Venice-based photographer, focused on reportage and social and environmental causes.

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Matteo de Mayda (b. 1984, Italy) is a Venice-based photographer. His visual research focuses on social and environmental causes. He participated in several exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale of Architecture (Venice, 2016), MUFOCO (Milan, 2021), Triennale (Milan, 2021) and Design Museum (London, 2022). In 2019 he published "Era Mare", a book about the high water in Venice. In 2020 he was selected by ARTRIBUNE magazine as the best young Italian photographer of the year. In 2021 he was selected by CAMERA among the emerging talents of the "Futures" program and won the Italian Sustainability Photo Award (ISPA) grant with his project about the Vaia storm. In 2022 he won the British Journal of Photography International Award. His images have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, 6Mois, Internazionale, Zeit, National Geographic and Vogue.

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