Matteo Buonomo (Monza, 1991) is a photographer based in Noto valley, Sicily.

He approached photography as a self-taught artist after earning a diploma in Graphic Design and Art Direction from NABA Milan in 2014.

In 2015, after spending one year in Tbilisi (Georgia) working on a documentary about Abkhazian refugees, he returned to Italy and joined the photography collective CESURA. Here he developed a long-term photographic practice with a strong focus on photobooks.

In 2017 after leaving the collective, he began working as a freelance photographer. 

His journey took him first to Siberia, where he worked on the project I Don’t Try to Feel Awake Anymore. In 2019 he went to Arkansas, where a chance encounter with Kristal and her son Skyler led to Love Mom, a series  that explores the bond and sometimes toxic relationship between a mother and her son while also reflecting on emptiness and the profound solitude embedded in the vastness of the American suburbs.

In 2020, driven by the need to find a place to call home, he moved from Milan to a small village of 50 inhabitants in Noto Valley, Sicily.

There, he began working on Before I sleep, a body of work that serves as both self-reflection and the story of an escape.

In 2022, he was selected as one of the 25 winners of Italian Panorama, an open call organized by Vogue Italia and PhotoVogue.

In January 2023, the Penumbra Foundation (New York, USA) awarded him a full scholarship for its Long-Term Photobook Program where he devloped his first monograph Before I Sleep.

In 2025 he was chosen by CAMERA Centro Italiano per la Fotografia to be part of the  European photography program FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY.