Souvenir

Souvenir is a Self-published Book in a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Each copy numbered and signed by the author.

It's a photographic tale, really close to an intimate diary. It's a mix between past, present and future, where the places are not easily recognizable, the distances are diminished, it's a book where the details have the key role in a fragmented story that always tell about my everyday life.


Opening Text by Martina Germani Riccardi

Nella fotografia di Matteo ci sono gli indizi di quello che cerca, della strada che ha preso: lui che ha una bussola e una direzione. ci sono i passi: le molliche delle sue fiabe. le cartoline dei suoi viaggi, come i quattro viaggi di Colombo. ci sono le parole che non dice mai, la magia di come vede le cose lui, e l’ironia. una malinconia luminosa e poetica. un disordine buffo, ricomposto: come un bambino ripreso dalla maestra. c'è tutta la profondità di cui è capace, e l'amore.

 

Opening text by Martina Germani Riccardi

Matteo's photography gives clues of what he is looking for, of the road he is walking down: he who has a compass and a direction. there you can trace his steps: follow the breadcrumbs of his fairy tales; collect the postcards from his travels, as the keepsakes from the four voyages of Columbus. In his work there are the words he never says, the magic of the things as he sees them, and irony. a luminous and poetic melancholy. a comic mess, tiden up: like a child told off by his teacher. there's all the depth he is capable of, and there is love.