DANIELE MATTIOLI PHOTOGRAPHERBASED IN SHANGHAI - CHINAEDITORIAL, PORTRAITURE AND CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPHYClick here to contact meBioBorn in
Umbria, Italy,after a career as a volleyball player he has worked as an assistant in a project for
Fratelli Alinari (the world's oldest photographic firm founded in Florence). After a brief experience in
Toronto, Canada, he moved in 1992 to
Vienna, where he started to work as a photo researcher for the Anzenberger Agency. He began frequent travel to the East and was based for five years in
Sydney, Australia, a convenient base for producing a variety of reportages, such as The City Preparing for the Olympics, a project on Australian outdoor life and assignment on the New Zealand's remote
Chatham Island for the Millennium feature. After many China-based assignments and features, he decided to relocate to
Shanghai in 2004. His photos from Shanghai were widely published and shown at various galleries. In 2005 his feature on the Sigma Recycling Factory in Shanghai was projected at
Visa Pour L'image, France. His Ping Pong School in China project was exhibited at the
Leica Gallery in Solms.In 2009 his project
"Fallen Angel - Chinese Cosplayer" has been exhibited at the
Pingyao Photo Festival.He has been represented by the
Anzenberger Agency since 1992, and a 16-page printed portfolio of his work on
Shanghai was published by the agency in 2001 and the reportage on Chongqing featured in the Book
East edited in 2008.
He is currently based in
Shanghai but working in many locations in Asia, mainly under assignment to editorial, corporate and portrait projects. He has been published in many magazines worldwide.
In 2009 he has started a blog on Fine Art Photography called
Augenblick the blog features articles and reviews on fine art photography. He has also contributing in some layout of books and he has curated some exhibitions from other photographers.
Editorial Clients:New York Times, Time Asia, Newsweek, Fortune, (USA) Vanity Fair Germany, Merian, Marie Claire, GQ, Amica, Focus, Brigitte (Germany), Panorama, Corriere Magazine, D Repubblica, Newton, Internazionale (Italy), Geo Japan, Geo Korea, Silkroad , Discovery , Silkroad, (Hong Kong), The Australian Magazine, She Magazine, The Goodweekend (Australia) El Mundo Magazine (Spain), Daily Telegraph Magazine, The Times, The Financial Review (UK) and many others
Corporate Clients:Allianz, Australian Consulate, Selle Royal, Vini Caprai, Valeo, Volvo, Kongsberg, Tilo Austria, ItaliaServizi, Arkema France, GTZ Germany, Bystronic, Lenzing Fibers, PPG, Nestle, Standford University, Berg, HldEvents, Ogilvy and others
Main Exhibitions :
Reportage festival Sydney (Australia) Australia(ns) 2001
Palazzo Trinci Foligno (Italy) LIsola di Adesso 2002
Villa Amoretti Turin (Italy) Australia(ns) 2002
Leica Gallery Solms (Germany) Ping Pong School in Shanghai 2005
Anzenberger Gallery Vienna (Austria) Shanghai 2004
Sanjiangyuan International Photography Festival in Qinghai (China) -Shanghai-2006
Italian Cultural Office in Shanghai (China) Shanghai 2006
Visa Pour lImage Perpignan (France) Screening -Sigma Recycling factory in Shanghai 2006
Canti e Discanti Festival Foligno (Italy) Cambodia, a Survived Land 2008
PIngyao Photo Festival (China) Cosplayer in China 2009