Biography

Mateusz Sarello was born in 1978 in Warsaw. A Graduate from the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. Member of the Napo Images agency (Napo Mentor Program). He is the author of the book "Swell", which was chosen as a finalist in the Best Photography Book Award at Pictures of the Year International and in the Photographic Publication of the Year at the Fotofestiwal in Lodz in 2014, won 3rd prize at the International Photography Awards in 2013 and was chosen for "Best Books of 2013" list by Photo-Eye. His awards and distinctions include the Prix La Quatrieme Image, the Center Santa Fe Awards, the Lucie Foundation Scholarship, the FotoVisura Grant, the PDN Photo Annual, the FotoWeekDC International Awards, the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards. A finalist of the Lens Culture Exposure Awards, he has exhibited at the Cortona On The Move Festival, the Copenhagen Photo Festival, the Manifesto Festival in Toulouse, the Filter Photo Festival in Chicago, the Guernsey Photography Festival, the Chobi Mela International Fesitval of Photography in Bangladesh, the FotoWeekDC in Washington, the Photomonth in Krakow, the International Photography Festival Organ Vida in Zagreb, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, the Leica Gallery in Warsaw. Publication credits include Lens Culture, GUP Magazine, Foto8, PDN - Photo District News, Blow Magazine, Archivo Magazine, Der Greif Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Prism Magazine.

Road.
Winter.
Void.
Void of everything that is important. I am trying to think about the "road." I cannot. I am completely exhausted. All in all, I am going only because of the weather. The prospect of wind, snow, and my flashes on the beach did not let me sleep. Besides, I am afraid of the few days of thinking only about Her, and this way I will have the Baltic Sea. My Baltic Sea. Instead of.

"Swell" is a story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness. About memories that we can't forget. At first it was supposed to be a documentary project about the Baltic Sea. A plan was drawn up and the places to be visited were marked on the map. During the trips to the Baltic I was accompanied by my girlfriend, until the moment of our parting. The parting changed me and I was no longer able to continue the project according to previously designed plan. I started going back to the places where we were together. Here the project ends, and a personal story begins.

My story "Swell" has been published as a book by the Instytut Kultury Wizualnej in Warsaw.

Book "Swell" was chosen as a finalist in the Best Photography Book Award at Pictures of the Year International and in the Photographic Publication of the Year at the Fotofestiwal in Lodz in 2014, received 3rd prize at the International Photography Awards in 2013 and was chosen for "Best Books of 2013" list by Photo-Eye.