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MATTEO CESCHI Milanese street photographer, essayist and freelance journalist, he writes and shoots for several magazines and has exhibited his shots in various locations.

He collaborates with Swiss newspaper La Regione. He is an author and radio host at RT Radio Terapia and collaborates with Radio Rock FM.

His latest book, Note per salvare il Pianeta, was published in 2020 by VoloLibero Edizioni. He is a member of f50/The International Photography Collective.

His latest projects were in collaboration with f/50 fellows John Meehan, Steve Coleman and Keith Goldstein and with the Italian fashion brand Lucio Costa.

He received a honorable mention at the 2015 International Photography Awards.

In 2016 he realized with colleague Jim Marshall KO.existence, a photographic project exhibited in Sarajevo and in 2017 in Milan (with high-patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2017 he was curator of an exhibition of historic photos entitled Unseen Sixties at ExpoWall gallery in Milan. In Spring 2017 he launched with creative designer Federico Ramponi remoteclicking, a new shooting language that exploits mobile technology. He was the author of the “making of” of artist and director Federico Garibaldi‘s short film, Un filo tra cielo, terra e acqua, winner of the Silver Dolphin prize at the 2018 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. In September 2019 he presented with colleague Jim Marshall Rise and Fall, a multimedia exhibition produced by the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU Info Centre in BiH at the History Museum of Bosnia Herzegovina, Sarajevo.

At the end of 2019 he started a collaboration with Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione Gallery in Milan. From February 2020 to early May 2020 he realized his Winter Midsummer Project (curated by Matteo Pacini), a completely subjective photographic narrative project rich in details captured during the few occasions one was allowed to go outside during the pandemic. In September 2020, he presented Out of the Night, an exhibition dedicated to the contemporary Swiss jazz music scene curated by Matteo Pacini.

SUBDIVISION

Sadly, subdivison happens inside some political rallies. One who asks for freedom and rights is the same person who attacks with gender hatred another protester exclaiming “W…E” and “B…H” forgetting precisely about freedom and rights. What a fool a human being is!

NOUS N’AURONS QUE CE QUE NOUS SAURONS PRENDRE

WE WILL ONLY HAVE WHAT WE CAN TAKE
With this slogan I began my photographic reportage on the student demonstrations against the CPE (contrat première embauche, in English first employment contract) on 10 March 2006.
That’s my first political assignment – I usually photographed rock musicians – for an on-line magazine directed by Italian best-seller writer Umberto Eco.
15 years later, I guess both student slogans and my frames are urgently topical.
A series of imperfect and blurred images (taken with a cheap compact camera, KODAK EASYSHARE C300) tell of a revolution that has never ended and needs to be restarted today…