Editorial
Studio Objects
Product photography for three independent makers using a tactile editorial style, close textures, deliberate shadows, muted palette.
ProductEditorial
Color-forward campaigns for food & culture brands.
Booking Q3–Q4 2025
Mateo creates campaign photography and visual systems for independent food, hospitality, and culture brands, work that sits at the intersection of documentary observation and polished campaign thinking. Images that feel specific, tactile, and alive.
8+
campaigns
campaigns
Now available for
Commissions & brand partnerships
Selected work
Projects that
define the work.
Brand Campaign
Orchard Table
↑ 3× social reach in launch week
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Orchard Table
Full campaign photography for a farm-to-table restaurant launch. Developed a warm, seasonal visual language, earthy textures, natural light, close-in food detail, that carried across their website, social, and printed menus. Reach tripled in the first week after launch.
CampaignFood photographyBrand identity
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02
Night Market Series
Poster, menu photography, and social campaign for a monthly pop-up series spanning four Atlanta neighborhoods. Created a visual system flexible enough to work across vendors and venues while maintaining a cohesive series identity. Attended by 2,400+ people across the season.
Event campaignArt direction
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Event Campaign
Night Market Series
↑ 2,400+ attendees across the season
Brand
Common Table Journal
Art direction for a food culture publication, covers, feature spreads, and portrait sessions across six quarterly issues.
Art directionPortrait
Hospitality
Orchard House Hotel
Campaign photography and social content library for a boutique hotel rebrand, 80+ images delivered across two shooting days.
CampaignHospitality
"Mateo gave the campaign a world, not just a set of images. He understood what we were trying to say before we could articulate it ourselves."
Lucia Ferreira, Founder · Orchard Table
Mateo Rivera
Brand Photographer & Art Director · Atlanta, GA
About
Visual stories made to feel lived in.
I'm a photographer and art director working across food, hospitality, and independent culture. I came to this work through documentary photography, I was more interested in what was real than what was composed, and that instinct still shapes everything I make. The best commercial images don't look like they're trying.
I work mostly with founders, restaurateurs, and independent brands who have something specific to say and need visuals that can carry it. I bring ideas to the table early and stay through delivery, from concept to content calendar if that's what the project needs.
Education
BFA in Photography
Georgia State University · Class of 2024 · Dean's List
Services
Campaign Photography
Full campaigns for launches, rebrands, and seasonal moments, web, social, and print-ready.
Art Direction
Visual concepts, mood boards, and on-set direction for shoots you're producing with another team.
Brand Image Libraries
Ongoing content relationships, 40–80+ images per session, organized for immediate use.
Editorial & Portrait
Feature photography for publications, profiles, and founder stories.
Let's work together
Have a project that should feel memorable?
Currently accepting brand campaigns, editorial commissions, and ongoing content partnerships. Typically booked 4–6 weeks out.
Based in
Atlanta, GA
Available for travel, Southeast U.S. and beyond
Currently open to
Brand campaigns, editorial, and content retainers
Booking projects for Q3–Q4 2025
Tools & disciplines
Sony A7 IV
Medium format
Lightroom
Capture One
Adobe CC