Window Night Fashion_Limited Edition, 2020

Mathieu Walter  

Mathieu Walter starts working at 18 years old as an assistant for several fashion and advertising photographers among them Jean-François Aloïsi. He studies Plastic Arts in a Parisian university. Photographer of Haute couture for the houses Nina Ricci, Torrente, Hanae Mori, he shoots a lot of celebrities such as Sonia Rykiel, Emma Thomson, Dustin Hoffmann and Garry Kasparov for international magazines. 

A decisive meeting with Sophie Bernardin, then director of the Crazy Horse, allowed him to exhibit his artworks for the first time in Paris in 2004 and Singapore. Here the artist wonders about the notion of intimacy. How to define it today; What place does it occupy in a world where humans spread their image without borders or barriers, and live outside themselves?

Patiently, Mathieu Walter catches moments, moments of truth. He photographs beings who do not show themselves, taken In situ without direction or complicity, seized through this window or between the ramps of this escalator. With his recompositions, the alchemy operates between the mystery of this silent harmony and the tumult of big cities.

Mathieu Walter has been exhibiting in Paris, Geneva, London, Monaco, Megève, Cannes, Gstaad, Verbier.