Quetzal Maucci is a freelance photographer and educator. She is originally from San Francisco and raised by South American parents, and is now based in London. Through her work, Quetzal is concerned with challenging systemic values and social constructs. She combines visual documentary techniques with archival images, writing, interviews and collaboration. She seeks to create space for personal therapeutic processes while initiating public dialogue on belonging, family dynamics, and identity.
In 2021, she graduated with a Distinction in her Master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from UAL-London College of Communication. In 2014, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors degree in Photography and Imaging from New York University. Recently, her work about her queer family structure was published in Time Magazine and she was a finalist for Pride Photo in The Netherlands. In 2023, she was accepted into Center Santa Fe Portfolio Review and a winner of a research support fund by Kingston University. In 2022, she was chosen as one of the 30 Under 30 Women Photographers to watch by Artpil. She was also shortlisted for the Photoboox book Award, the Jerwood/Photoworks Award, and the Royal Photographic Society’s International Exhibition 163. In 2021, she was shortlisted for Images Vevey Book Award and the Belfast Photo Festival. She has been published in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, etc.
