Marina Mónaco (b. 1996) is a Berlin-based photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After graduating in Direction of Photography at Universidad del Cine (FUC) in 2019; and a decade of developing her professional practice in the fields of fashion and editorial, her career took a turn.
In 2020 she was selected by The Baden-Württemberg Foundation’s Stipendium program to join the Film Akademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany where she became interested in documenting the expression of youth culture across Europe. Since then, her artistic practice took off as she settled in Berlin to develop a time-based body of work.
Mónaco's ongoing series Kids explore the idea of a new sensitivity through intimate portraits. By combining formats that range from digital to analogue, Super 8 and VHS; she achieves dreamlike, saturated atmospheres that aim to inspire a sense of future nostalgia for our present times.
Raw, vulnerable, unapologetic, Kids can be read as the living manifesto of a generation she is part of.
Text by Julieta Colantonio
Publications
Latest Features
DAZED Magazine - Interview 2022
CLASH Magazine x Converse - Interview 2023
SLEEK Magazine x Converse - Interview 2023
Vogue Magazine ft Troye Sivan - Photo featured - 2023
Converse x HIGHSNOBIETY - Photo featured - 2023
VICE x UNIQLO DE & VICE x UNIQLO UK - Article 2023
GQ Magazine ft Troye Sivan - Photos featured - 2023
Harper’s Bazaar Italia - Interview 2022
DAZED Magazine - In pictures: the most intimate images of 2022
DNA Magazine - Print Issue "Pleasures" - Interview 2023
Vogue Magazine, VICE Magazine, DAZED Magazine, HIGHSNOBIETY, GQ Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Italia, CLASH Magazine, SLEEK Magazine, DNA Magazine, Das Wetter, DIFFUS Magazine, Curated by Girls, Sicky Magazine, Cake Magazine, Lucy’s Magazine, Pure Nowhere, C-Heads Magazine, Stick and Stones, Contributor Magazine, Grunge and Art, Bueno kids.
Selected Clients
Converse, Adidas, VANS, Reebok, Troye Sivan, Google x Android, Uniqlo, Zalando, Mercedes Benz, Axel Arigato, Lollapalooza, Jazmin Chebar, Brahma, Crop BA, Ay Not Dead, Caro Cuore.
Billboards
Troye Sivan ft Spotify - Times Square, New York
Troye Sivan ft Spotify - Sydney
Exhibitions
"I Saw You in a Song" solo show - 27, 28 & 29 October ( Berlin, 2023)
Berlin Photo Week (Berlin, 2022)
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