I am Franco-British visual Artis and writer and living in the UK.
Since receiving my MA in Documentary photography at LCC, in 2018, I have been published in the Guardian as a journalist and photographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/marella-oppenheim.
and was awarded the ‘The Photographer’s Gallery’ photography prize, by Brett Rogers OBE for my 4 year photographic investigation on Colonia Dignidad, a German Nazi sect in Chile, which was published by Blue Orange Press, in 2023.
You can view some of the work by clicking on the menu bar on my website, and selecting ‘Under Dark Roots/ Colonia Dignidad’.
In 2021, I was fortunate to have the support of the Anne Clergue Galerie in Arles, France, where I exhibited my photographs of the recently deceased US photographer and diarist Peter Beard, during the Rencontres d’Arles photographic festival.
One of these portraits was chosen for the cover of his biography, by Graham Boynton, published by St Martin’s Press, 2022.
You can view some of the work shown at the exhibition by clicking on the menu ‘Like a Bird on a Wire, Peter Beard’ or on ‘Silvergelatine prints and others for sale’ .
My main interest lies in highlighting ecological and socio political issues and I am working on a series of multimedia work on the effects of the Anthropocene on wildlife and nomads in Africa.
