Italian photographer currently based between Milano and Edinburgh and interested in portraiture, fashion, and ballet photography. Much of her work reflects a connection with dance. This is obviously present in her stage’s shoots, but also in Irina’s personal artwork and fashion photography, as she has studied ballet from the age of 7 and has continued to do so throughout her entire life.
« Medievalist, former dancer and free-lance photographer. This is how Irina Mattioli describes herself, and in doing so she highlights the main components of her photographic approach: a timeless and iconic aesthetic, the world of ballet and, above all, an utter freedom of expression. With such an eclectic background, the works of the young artist shows a tumultuous variety of inputs and interests.
In her work, the resulting pictures are the end of a process where senses and chaotic suggestions get ‘purified’ and become something neater and more essential. Bodies, limbs, faces are tangled in elegant movements, somehow ‘suspended’ in a time-less and space-less atmosphere.
Chaos and restlessness become order and peace.
Lights and shadows never ‘hurt’ the subjects with violence: they rather carve bodies out of nowhere, softly yet in a firm way. When present, the color is never random, but a calculated, vivid note on a soft-toned base.
In her creative process, the Irina Mattioli never sets for mere technical perfection, and never ceases to seek that vibrant tension that distinguishes her photography; the inevitable, dynamic consequence of being a multitude of things: historian, archaeologist, dancer and just in the end, photographer ».
Donatella Scortecci – Università degli Studi di Perugia
“My body is co-extensive with the world, spread across all things,
and at the same time it is condensed into this single point which
all things indicate and which I am, without being able to know it”.
J.P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1943.
« In the work of Irina Mattioli, there is a dramatic (and exquisite) relationship between the body and its veil. There is a tension of desire and loathing, of light and darkness in the search for the truth – a truth that remains somehow hidden – that is chased through shapes, shades, flesh, and life ».
Anna Tini Brunozzi – FUA.
Available for commissions and freelance’s jobs.
I also do weddings: if you are interested, feel free to contact me and I will send you my ceremony’s portfolio.
CLIENTS
Grazia di Michele – www.graziadimichele.com
Francesco Tricarico
Silvia Ranzi – The ICE Fashion and Lola Magazine – www.theicefashion.it – www.lolamagazine.it
Crescenzi & Co. – www.crescenziandco.com
Art Mood On – www.artmoodon.com
Marta Festa – www.martafesta.com
Gled – Filippo Fanini – www.filippofanini.com
Pokemaoke – www.pokemaoke.com
Giubilei – www.giubilei.com
Jacob Jewels – www.jewelsjacob.com
Incredible Creatures – www.incrediblecreatures.it
Paris Magazine – www.caffemodarinaldi.it/magazine/paris-magazine
Airbnb – www.airbnb.com
Oplas – Luca Bruni – www.oplas.eu
Young Jazz – www.youngjazz.it
Pierluigi Abbondanza – La Dance Emotions – www.ladanceemotions.com (assistant & partner)
AWARDS
First and only winner of the international contest Anna Pavlova Ballet Photography Contest 2016.
Two special mentions assigned by the jury at the Anna Pavlova Ballet Photography Contest 2016.
PUBLICATIONS
Subconscious – cover and fashion editorial on Elegant Magazine, Los Angeles, September 2016.
Anna Pavlova International Ballet Photography Contest 2016 – Catalogue, Moscow, 2016.
First Impressions of the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens: Irina Mattioli – collaboration with LOMOGRAPHY, 2016
A paso doble with the Petzval – collaboration with LOMOGRAPHY, 2015.
Doppia B, come Bruno Bordese – shooting for Lola Magazine, Milan, 2015.
The Solid Surface of the Earth – fashion editorial for Lola Magazine, Milan, 2015.
Mirror Confidences, Mario Dice – shooting for Lola Magazine, Milan, 2015.
A Matter of Style – cover and editorial for The ICE Fashion, Milan, 2015.
Podestaria – D. Rose, book cover, 2015.
Contesti del riconoscimento – Federica Gregoratto and Filippo Ranchio, Mimesis, Milan, 2014.
Pokemaoke Advertising on Vogue Accessory Italy, Autumn 2014.
Il doppio volto della comunicazione – Federica Gregoratto, Mimesis, Milan, 2014.
Il Bianco e Nero – Catalogue, Bottini, Perugia, 2013.
POST 2: Literatures – On Some Intersections, Tangents and Asymptotes Between Philosophy and Literature, Mimesis, Milan, 2011.
POST 1: Progress – If we are going somewhere(and, if so, where), Mimesis, Milan, 2009.
Professions for Venice – Make up for Venice, reportage on La Rivista di Venezia, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, March 2009.
Itineraries in Venice – Blue Lagoon, reportage on NYCVE – Italian American Magazine, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, March 2009.
Professions for Venice – A Lagoon of Friendly Waters, reportage on La Rivista di Venezia, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, November 2008.
Itineraries in Venice – Sea’s and Lagoon’s Wolf, reportage on NYCVE – Italian American Magazine, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, October 2008.
Barbier and the birth of Art Deco, reportage on NYCVE – Italian American Magazine, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, October 2008.
The Lido di Venezia like Hollywood, reportage of the 65th International Film Festival of Venice on NYCVE – Italian American Magazine, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, October 2008.
Itineraries in Venice – Code Red, reportage su NYCVE – Italian American Magazine, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, August 2008.
Professions for Venice – A Gondolier Without Frills, reportage on La Rivista di Venezia, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, August 2008.
Professions for Venice – Emergencies Skimming on Waters, reportage on La Rivista di Venezia, Mazzanti Editori, Venice, June 2008.
EXHIBITIONS
Irina Mattioli Ballet Photography – Personal Exhibition powered by the Anna Pavlova Foundation, Rome, March 2017.
Anna Pavlova International Ballet Photography Contest Exhibition – Collective Exhibition at the Albanian Embassy Art Gallery, The Hague, October 2016.
Anna Pavlova International Ballet Photography Contest Exhibition – Collective Exhibition at Officine Fotografiche, Rome, September 2016.
Galatea – Personal Exhibition powered by DUB vibes at Bond – Milano, December 2014.
Il Bianco e il Nero – Collective Exhibition at Palazzo Conestabile della Staffa – FUA, Perugia, May 2013.
City Art – Collective Exhibition at St. James’ Cloister, Foligno, July 2012.
Selection of works – Collective Exhibition at La Brocanterie, Festival of the Two Worlds, Spoleto, July 2012.
Il Dono dell’Attimo – Collective Exhibition at Circolo degli Artisti, Rome, January 2012.
Immaginario – Personal Exhibition at Caffè Morlacchi, Perugia, December 2011.
Planète Femmes – Collective Exhibition at Casino Venier, Venice, October 2011.
Con i minuti contati – Collective Exhibition at Sant’Agostino, Montefalco, July 2011.
Iperuranio – Personal Exhibition at Officina34 retròscena, Foligno, July 2011.
Selection of Works – Personal Exhibition at Buriani, Nocera Umbra, September 2010.
Fotoromanza – Collective Exhibition at Spazio Terra, Perugia, June 2009.
From Poetry to Images, from Images to Poetry – Personal Exhibition at Metricubi, Campo San Polo, Venice, May 2009.
Human Balance – Collective Exhibition at Feltrinelli, Aprile 2009.
Scatta la sicurezza – Collective Exhibition at Palazzo Primavera, Terni, March 2008.
Scatta la sicurezza – Collective Exhibition at Rocca Paolina, Perugia, March 2008.
