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Matt Licari is a New York City born and raised fashion and editorial photographer. His unique upbringing, extensive travels and energetic personality inform his explorative style of image-making. He equally enjoys studio and location work, and thrives on collaborative team projects.

CLIENTS

Gilt

Macy's

Viacom

Samsung

Nicole Miller

Lord & Taylor

Trish McEvoy

Nickelodeon

Associated Press

Universal Studios

Republic Records

John Varvatos

Bobbi Brown

Loehmann’s

Oribe Haircare

Davines

Retrouve

The Arrivals

Bare Collection

Gabriela Cadena

Daniele Michetti

Need Supply Co

V76 by Vaughn

Andrea Gomez

Oxygen Network

Goldsmith

Gigi Burris

Adore Me

Tableaux Vivants

Northwestern Mutual

Corbis Images

Gallery Stock

Jose Duran

Tabacaru Swim

Flying Solo

Invision

Larucci

ØDD

DuPont USA

Asher Levine

Haus of Topper

Ulrich Lang New York

The Public Theater

The Black Motorcycles

Educators for Excellence

Virginia Tourism

PUBLICATIONS

W

WWD

Vogue.com

Vogue FR

Vogue Italia

Moda Operandi

Nylon Indonesia

The New York Post

The Huffington Post

Time Out New York

Muscle & Fitness

Inked Magazine

Qvest Germany

Vegan Lifestyle

Seveteen Thailand

Bloomberg Businessweek

American Salon

Modern Salon

The Gothamist

Malibu Magaine

Brooklyn Magazine

Worth Magazine

Vice Noisey

Sharp Magazine

Gotham Magazine

Spirit & Flesh

Noi.se

Creem

Jute

American Songwriter

Skateboarder Magazine

Thrasher Magazine

Xpose (Ireland)

LadyGunn

Laud Magazine

The General Aesthete

Closer (Germany)

Behind The Chair

Design Within Reach

Virginia Living

Richmond Magazine

Not Just a Label

L‘Esthete

BACKGROUND

Matt Licari was born in Manhattan, grew up in the Bronx, and spent several summers in Maine. He began photographing in early 2003 in his native Bronx, New York. His earliest subjects were his fellow skateboarders and Bronx friends. He quickly moved away from skate-action-photographs in favor of street portraits and intimate settings in 2004. Between 2005 and 2011 Licari worked on a photographic study of The Bronx, NYC. He explored the urban landscape and it's people with an approach similar to that of a street photographer, but made portraits in a more procedural method, using a large-format view camera. The mixture of his energetic personality and this large, slow and cumbersome device gave the pictures both intensity and depth. Licari moved to Richmond, Virginia from 2010-2013 and began a darker project about relocation, mourning, death and family. This series is indefinitely on hold due to the death of several subjects. During this time Licari also created a framework for the Subway photographs by scanning old film shot years earlier, and finished the series using digital images he created on short trips back to New York. In 2012 Licari began transitioning into the fashion world by producing a series of images inspired by his subway pictures, but featuring models and styling instead of pedestrian travelers. This quickly took hold and by 2013 he had shifted most of his professional work to fashion and editorial work. CAREER Concurrent with making personal photographic work, Licari has developed a career in editorial and fashion. He assisted and worked closely with many photographers, galleries and museums, most notably the Richard Avedon Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum. Licari received his BFA in photography from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase in New York. He taught several photography classes in the Bronx to gradeschoolers in the late 2000s, and taught a photography workshop to highschoolers in Ireland in 2013. Licari guest-lectured at VCU School of the Arts in 2011 and 2012 and SUNY Purchase College in 2014, and at FIT in 2015. He has run an intern mentorship program each semester for 4 years for students interested in fashion photography. Throughout these endeavors he worked as a lab technician, printer and retoucher at various studios, retouching and producing campaigns for international fashion and beauty brands.