Photographer's Profile

Matei Focseneanu

Switzerland

Biography In 2015, after having experienced several activities in the political, musical and computer fields, I turned to photography and started CEPV school (Vevey, CH). In 2018, I released "Ici c'est l'aquarium, dehors c'est l'océan" for my diploma, the result of several shooting sessions with convicts inside a Swiss prison, wearing clothing made by three fashion designers from the HEAD school (Geneva, CH). In 2019, I moved to Paris, working as an assistant for various portrait and fashion photographers. In parallel I continued my artistic practice which has been rewarded and exhibited by LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards in 2019 and Bourse du Talent 2019. Since then I decided to complete my technical skills by working as a light assistant, which gave me the opportunity to deepen my understanding of light manipulation. Artist statement I have always been fascinated by the garment, not only for its obvious aesthetic qualities, but also, and mainly, because of its remarkable implicit communicative capacities. Using photography as a medium, my ambition is to stage both bodies and clothing in order to produce an oneiric visual language.