Matteo Abbondanza is a photographer known for his distinctive personal style.

He began with street photography and later diverged from it.

He has taken minimalism and geometry to the highest levels, undoubtedly surprising viewers with his compositions.

Here’s a brief interview to better grasp his perspective on photography.

Q Matteo, I would start with ‘La forma è il contenuto‘ (Form is the content), your recently published book, and also a phrase with which I personally identify you. This statement of yours has always seemed very intriguing to me. Can you explain it, especially to those who may not know you?

A I’ve never been interested in giving messages, making people think, making art of denunciation or anything else: it’s not my job.

My intent has always been to create images whose strength lies in the shape, in the aesthetics.

Nothing happens in my shots, they are a pure aesthetic exercise through which I show what I see in the world or, better, what I would like to see.

I am interested in the composition, the POV, the coincidences of lines, the combinations of shapes and spaces because it frees myself from anxiety: I am obsessed with the visual impact, with the beauty of the coincidences and I try to convey this obsession with photography.

It is also a way to go in the opposite direction to the dominant radical chic mentality according to which art must always necessarily have a social purpose.

For me it is not like this: for this reason “the shape is the content” has always seemed to me a perfect definition to describe what I try to do with photography.