Honorable Mention TIFA 2023 Book / Documentary

Memento·mori

  • Photographer
    Matias Canosa
  • Agency / Studio
    Matiascanosa.com
  • Technical Info
    132-page Color Photobook, Hardcover, Gardapat Klassica 150 Grams Paper. Limited Edition Of 50 Copies
  • Photo Date
    Between 2018-2022

Walking through the city, I am both actor and spectator in an improvised theater of infinite variables, creating unique moments that never existed before and never will again; spontaneous, inevitable, living and dying in milliseconds. I could say that Memento.Mori begins in 2018, when I didn't even know that exploring Madrid with my camera in hand would lead me on a four-year journey collecting these images; memories of the curious chaotic order in the flow of reality, and the strange beauty in the melancholy of watching them fade away. *View on my website, TIFA jpeg compression kills colors

How to convey something that there are no words for? The symbols we use turn out to be limited when attempting to articulate a universe of constant change and movement; a reality that goes beyond all possible understanding. Words we use to describe ourselves, prisons built by our own will. We talk about where we come from, or going to; how we see and how we act. Characters in our own personal screenplay. The image is not limited. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and living in Madrid, España since 2016, photography has been by my side all my life; as well as curiosity.