Lucía Mara, (Buenos Aires, 1988), began her love of the image and the material representation of people and places through her early passion for film. She majored in film from the Universidad del cine (FUC), Buenos Aires, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to study film and photography at the University of California (UCLA).
A decisive move in her career came with her relocation to New York City and the photography courses she took at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Her photographic work has a strong cinematic feel and one of her main subjects is the city: the fascination with urban life, the streets and its inhabitants and the myriad secrets of the metropolis hidden in plain sight, utilizing photography as a medium to reveal beauty in the most unexpected places and spotlighting the extraordinary in scenes of everyday life.
Street photography plays an important role in her work, but there are other paths that she has been exploring as well, both technically and conceptually. She produced a series of photogravures at the studio of master printer Dan Benveniste, in Madrid. She also experiments with collage: both digital photocollages and physical paper cut-ups which further explore the notions of spatial unfolding, already a distinctive trait in her photographic work.
