Matteo Montenero
Photographer — Documentary & Visual Storytelling
Torino, Italy
Visual artist working in the documentary and cultural fields.
Education
- BA in Photography, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, Turin — 110 cum laude 2020
- Masterclass in Visual Storytelling, CAMERA and International Center of Photography, Turin 2019
Teaching & roles
- Lecturer in documentary photography, CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia
- Lecturer in documentary photography, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, Turin since 2024
- Workshop with students of Politecnico di Torino 2024
- Co-founder, PBI — digital platform for the cultural dissemination of the artist's book 2023
- Co-founder, Spazio Paradiso — interdisciplinary space with a focus on photography 2026
Selected projects
- Patch — long-term documentary on the Roma community in Turin
- Valba dë Carsaj — documentary in Val di Susa on youth and their relationship with the land during Phase 2 of the pandemic
- Iconoclastic Youth — documentary on Northern Ireland, on the generation raised among the unresolved tensions of the loyalist–nationalist conflict
- Palestine — photographic project on the structures of separation and persistence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Loro non tornarono più a terra — documentary in Tunisia, built around the myth of the Seven Sleepers as a critical device on youth unemployment in the southern Mediterranean. Supported by WeWorld and FASE Festival