Xavier Mas

Xavier grew up in central London in the 90s. He studied Visual Communication (MA) at the Royal College of Art (2009), where his approach to photography evolved organically out of previous experiments with fine art image making, film and sculpture. His practice now combines a documentary-like approach suffused with nuanced nods to cinema and painting.

Often direct, yet context heavy, Xavier shoots a combination of still life and fashion. Objects with a story, or characters that jump out of narratives that we only get a glimpse of: an echo of a youth spent witnessing snippets of stories, or guessing at a discarded object’s past in the shifting city. A fascination with the ecstatic moment amidst the ordinary runs through his work. The notion that a photographic image can vibrate with a kind of ‘elevated quotidian’ is something he returns to repeatedly.

Xavier is also Deputy Editor of Noon (Noon Magazine, Noon Editions & After Noon Magazine), a multi-format platform publishing meditations on accelerating chaos.