Matthieu Rytz

Matthieu Rytz is a producer, curator, photographer and director, and is also the producer of the World Press Photo event in Montreal. A visual anthropologist by training, for ten years his passion for photography and ethnology has led him across the globe to photograph cultural and human diversity. His pictures, as well as those he has commissioned, have been exhibited in settings that include the New York Photo Festival, Visa pour l'image (France), Galerie Flux (Geneva), Noorderlicht Photogallery and Museum Belvédère (Holland), Ciudad Móvil Cultural Center (Colombia), Rencontres internationales de la photographie (Gaspé, Quebec), and Tohu and ARTVstudio in Place des Arts (Montreal). As president and founder of the company Arkar, he has also co-produced World Press Photo in Quebec City and produced the exhibition Melting Tropics (2014, Quartier des spectacles, Montreal). He's been working with the former president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, on an international documentary "Anote's Ark" dealing with the realities of climate change, which has taken him to the United Nations, the Vatican, Geneva and Tokyo, among other places. He also specializes in visual scenography and photographic installations.