Maria Mariño
Bio
María was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1975. She attended her first analogue photography course in 2000 with Ines Tanoira and between 2001 and 2019 she perfectioned her skills in several areas, with photographers Eduardo Gil, Diego Ortiz Mugica, Cruz Mendizabal and Santiago Carrera. In 2010 she participated in a Bruce Barnbaum Workshop in Bariloche, Argentina, and between 2015 and 2016 she attended Julieta Escardo’s “Turma Program”. In 2016 she joined Edo Zollo in a "One-Night Walk" in London and in 2017 took a street photography workshop in Ny lead by Gus Powell and Charalampos Kydonakis (“Dirty Harry”), both members at the time of the international street photography collective “In Public”. That same year she attended a one-day photo walk in London with David Gibson, member of that same collective at the time.
She participated in several exhibitions and art fairs including "Dialogos" in 2013 in the Museo en los Cerros (MEC) in Jujuy, "Denominador Común" in the Centro Cultural Borges in 2013, Prize of the Estimulo Ayerza editions 2013 and 2015 in the Bellas Artes and the Sivori Museum, respectively, and participated in the Buenos Aires Photo 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 editions, as part of Zona de Photo Gallery.
She won the first prize and was a semifinalist in the American Express awards of the Buenos Aires Photo 2010 and 2011 editions, and received a mention in the MEC Museum 2012 awards. She was chosen finalist in the fine art and landscape categories of the 5th edition Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2013, the Francisco Ayerza stimulus awards 2013 and 2015 editions and the Lensculture “Street Photography Awards” 2019. In addition, she got an honorable mention in the street photography category of the 2020 and 2022 Minimalist Photography Awards.
Statement
These photos are part of an ongoing project that led to my first photobook "ONE" which is about the beauty of the extraordinary in everyday life and in being alone in this overcrowded world, and the mystery of people. All photos were taken in some of the most busy cities in the world. Yet, if you take the time to observe people going by, we remain alone, no matter how surrounded by others we are. For some, that may mean loneliness. For me, this is what makes us unique and interesting. It allows me to imagine their lives and the thousands of possible lives that we all have, to create my own world within this world. A fantasy world. A dream.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
