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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
Nicole Miller
Lord & Taylor
Trish McEvoy
Nickelodeon
Universal Studios
Republic Records
John Varvatos
Bobbi Brown
Loehmann’s
Oribe Haircare
Davines
Retrouve
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
Larucci
DuPont USA
ØDD
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
Italian Vogue
Nylon Indonesia
The New York Post
The Huffington Post
Time Out New York
Muscle & Fitness
Inked Magazine
Qvest
Vegan Lifestyle
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.