Mathias Zwick is an independent photographer and a member of Inland, an international cooperative of documentary photographers.
Through his photography, he explores contemporary realities through places, individuals, and the stories that connect them. Working across countries such as Iran, China, Kosovo, France, and Albania, he develops long-term documentary projects rooted in observation and human encounters.
His work has been published in French and international media, and outlets such as Libération, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel regularly commission him. His series have also been presented in festivals and exhibitions in France and internationally. A recipient of the Grande Commande Photojournalisme led by the BnF and the French Ministry of Culture, as well as support from the Cnap for contemporary documentary photography, he also undertakes residencies and public commissions documenting territorial transformations and the place of the individual.
Deeply committed to encounters, his recent projects explore the boundaries of documentary photography, drawing on cinema and installation art to reflect on reality, interconnection, and the search for human connection.
mathiaszwick@etik.com
IG : @mathiaszwick
Publication / Client list
(includes press and commissions)
La Croix, Disclose, Financial Times, Fujifilm, L’Humanité, The Independent, Les Inrocks, Konbini, Libération, Madame Figaro, Le Monde, M le mag du Monde, Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France, Philosophie Magazine, Society, So Foot, Der Spiegel, L’Obs, Le Vif, Vice, Die Zeit, … among others.
Exhibitions
Mirazh – Fotohaus, Month of Photography, Bordeaux, April 2026.
The Silent Shore – Fujikina – Rencontres d’Arles 2025.
Thrutopia – Group Exhibition with Inland Cooperative – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation – Rencontres d’Arles 2025.
Histoires d’amour – Grande Commande Photojournalisme – BnF – Destin sensible gallery, Mons-en-Barœul, France, September 2024.
Figures de style – Colors Urban Festival X La Chambre – Strasbourg, September 2024.
La France en Face – Grande Commande Photojournalisme – BnF – Hôtel Fontfreyde, Clermont-Ferrand, June 2024.
Sous les sunlight – Grande Commande Photojournalisme – BnF – Stimultania, Strasbourg, May 2024.
A Push Towards the West – Strass Iran Festival – Strasbourg, March 2024.
La France sous leurs yeux – National Library of France, Paris, March 2024.
IN24 – Collective exhibition of the Inland cooperative – Arles, July 2023.
Myths – Collective exhibition of the Inland cooperative – Arles, July 2022.
Confinement of an ordinary Madman – Les Photographiques du Mans festival (France), selected – March 2021.
A Push Towards the West – Horizonte Zingst Photo Festival, Germany, May 2018.
A Push Towards the West – Festival Circulation(s) – Hôtel Fontfreyde, Clermont-Ferrand, March 2017.
A Push Towards the West – Projection -Ateliers de Couthures, Festival International du Journalisme Vivant, July 2016.
Artistic Residencies
Creative Residency with Public Engagement, Diaphane Photographic Center – Love and Seduction Among Seniors, Compiègne, March 2025.
Creative Residency with Public Engagement, Stimultania Photography Center – Women-Only Gym Sessions in the Vernes District, Givors (France), February 2025.
“5 étoiles” residency with the photographic center Stimultania. Creation of a series on the attachment of the inhabitants of Givors to sports – Givors, France, April and June 2024.
Creation residency with a public in Givors with the photographic center Stimultania. Co-creation of a portrait series with the residents of a nursing home around the theme of sports – Givors, France, November 2023.
Artistic residency at Espai l’Abraçada – Development of an exhibition based on a documentary essay on nightlife during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the form of an immersive installation. Passa, France, August 2021.
Grants, awards & honors
2025 – Selected artist for the photographic commission “Les vies qu’on aime”, Forum Vies Mobiles, in partnership with Réseau Diagonal.
2025 – Commissioned by Fujifilm (carte blanche) – A winter series on the Adriatic, exploring the aftermath of mass tourism.
2024 – Grant for contemporary documentary photography support from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP).
2022 – Grant recipient of the “Radioscopie de la France” commission by the Ministry of Culture and the National Library of France (BnF).
2021 – Mentor Award session #5 Perpignan: Jury Prize and Public Prize.
Interview & Features
2026 – Mathias Zwick, le temps de la narration – Coze Magazine.
2025 – Mathias Zwick, belle et fragile école buissonnière – Écoutez voir by Brigitte Patient.
2025 – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Faut pas pousser les ISO
2024 – Mathias Zwick, documentary photographer – Flash #01 by Romain Brachet.
2021 – Covid-19 : des boîtes de nuit vides et tristes photographiées par Mathias Zwick
© Mathias Zwick Photography – 2026