ABOUT MATU BUIATTI

Matu Buiatti is an Argentinian photographer and visual artist working between Buenos Aires and Europe. His practice is built on a simple but demanding premise: the image is never the starting point. It is the consequence of something slower — a conversation, a shared meal, a trust that grows between two people who did not know each other before.

He works exclusively with analog film and without digital retouching, treating photography as a relational medium. The decision to shoot on film is not nostalgic — it is conceptual. The delay, the uncertainty, the impossibility of seeing the result immediately are not limitations but conditions that demand a different kind of presence, both from the photographer and from the person in front of the camera. His gaze is deeply shaped by territory: rivers, humidity, heat, open time. The body always appears in relation to an environment, a climate, a rhythm that is never neutral.

His debut photobook, La Isla (2026), is the culmination of eighteen months of encounters with strangers across the Paraná Delta and the mountains of Córdoba. Made with eleven people — many of whom had never posed nude — the book explores intimacy, trust, and the possibility of reframing vulnerability through encounter. La Isla has been presented in Barcelona and Berlin, and covered by KALTBLUT, Fucking Young!, Gayety, Cultura Inquieta and PNPPL Zine.

Beyond photography, Buiatti has worked across visual arts, screen printing and education. At 22, he founded the Instituto Argentino de Diseño (IAD), a school dedicated to fashion and visual culture that ran until the pandemic. He has also worked as a film programmer through Hot Films & Art, a Buenos Aires cycle dedicated to queer cinema, presenting works by directors including Bruce LaBruce and Matt Lambert.