Matthieu Croizier

Matthieu Croizier (1994, he/him) is a freelance artist and photographer based in Lausanne. He graduated from the Vevey School of Photography (CEPV) in 2017 and from the Bachelor in Photography of the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne (ECAL) in 2020.

Using photography as a tool, he tries to transform reality into fantasy – or the opposite – and to blur the boundaries between what is considered normal and what is not. From then on, he is mainly interested in queerness and the representation of the human body and seeks, in his work, to evoke the tension between opposing notions, such as the beautiful and the ugly, fascination and repulsion, the ordinary and the spectacular.

He has taken part in various group exhibitions since 2017 in Switzerland and abroad. He has been nominated as a British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch 2021, as well as a Futures Talents 2021. He is also a laureate of the Paris Photo’s Carte Blanche Students 2020 and was awarded the 26th vfg Young Talent Award for Photography.

Besides his personal projects, he gets commissioned for shooting portraits, editorial or still life, and has worked for magazines such as M le Monde or T Magazine.