Cyrill Matter

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Cyrill Vincent Matter (* 1990 in Zurich ) is a Swiss portrait , fashion , advertising photographer and filmmaker .

Life

Cyrill Matter was born and raised in Zurich. After graduating from compulsory school , he worked in the publishing and advertising industries . During this time he discovered photography. From 2009 to 2011 he worked as an assistant , freelance photographer and filmmaker , mainly in Switzerland and South Africa . After an accident in 2012, he suffered from diplopia , damage to the eye muscle and the surrounding nerves, which leads to double vision . He was therefore forced to wear an eye patch until an operation by Daniel Mojon in 2015 was able to fully restore the function of the eye. He lives in Zurich , Paris and New York and is the official brand ambassador for the camera manufacturer Canon .

photography

Matter's work has appeared in international publications such as GQ , Essential Homme , Hunter Magazin , Town & Country , Zeit Magazin , MAN of by WORLD and L'uomo Vogue . He portrayed the fashion designers Jean-Paul Gaultier and Tommy Hilfiger as well as many internationally renowned actors, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Jeremy Irons , Ewan McGregor , Christoph Waltz , Kiefer Sutherland and Liam Neeson . Other people of public interest were the German rapper Cro , creative director Thomas Hayo and the model Karlie Kloss .

Awards

In 2015 and 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Canon Switzerland. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Winner of the Swiss Photo Award chosen. In: TEC21 . Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Katrin Schregenberger: Swiss Photo Award: Good is relative. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Swiss Photo Award - the.selection: Cyrill Matter and Michael Egloff awarded. In: persoenlich.com . 18th September 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Matter, Cyrill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matter, Cyrill Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss portrait photographer, fashion photographer, advertising photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich