Mathias Maumont
Resistencia (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Resistencia is Mathias Maumont Perafan's latest project. Throughout a serie of 10 portraits, Mathias explores the different meanings of such a broad and universal concept as "Resistance". Each character's personal life story, experiences, work put the spotlight in a specific part of what "resistance" can mean. It's a colombian project shot in the city of Popayan, in the Cauca, south west of Colombia in 2022. Their stories led to the artistic set-up that Mathias and his team constructed for each portrait.
The goal of the serie, both trough the photographs and the videos of the interviews of the subjects, which includes, at a certain degree, the wonderful diversity of this territory, is to lead the audience to listen and to understand to different kind of people they are not used to share with.
Mathias believe in the power of art to generate change in society.
Each individual histories talk about some universal subject that everyone can relate with.
We all have something of a resistance in us. Some in a very literal way, others in a more abstract one.
This serie is a tribute to all of us who have to fight our way in life.
AUTHOR
Mathias has-been an image-maker since 2016. He began his formal training studying social geography in Paris. After completing his master degree, his career took a turn, discovering cinema and photography as the right means to express himself.
Mathias went on learning fundamental movie-making skills at the École de cinéma et de télévision de Québec, in Quebec City, Canada. While working in visual production as, at times, light technician, short-film director or photographer, Mathias keeps refining his skills and knowledge by attending an advance training in professional photography in Montreal.
A tireless worker, Mathias works on a variety of movie and TV productions where is reputation as a trustworthy collaborator precedes him. He is also a managing member of Le Trou Noir, a Montreal-based organisation dedicated to the craft of analog photography.
Nowadays, Mathias is dedicating his energy and creativity to photography. Fascinated by the poetry of the everyday life, his eyes often wander toward the humanity lying in everything, even the most commun. Street photography inherited of humanist photography and documentaries have a fundamental influence on his work.
Awards
2020, Finaliste Head On Photo Festival, Portrait
2020, Prix d'Excellence CFP Lachine
2020, Coup de Coeur CAPIC for Herencias
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