Mathieu Walter starts working at 18 years old as an assistant for several fashion and advertising photographers among them Jean-François Aloïsi. He studies Plastic Arts in a Parisian university. Photographer of Haute couture for the houses Nina Ricci, Torrente, Hanae Mori, he shoots a lot of celebrities such as Sonia Rykiel, Emma Thomson, Dustin Hoffmann and Garry Kasparov for international magazines.