She was born in Mexico City, lived in Israel as a teenager and later returns to live in the land where she was born. But the stage of her life in which she lived in Israel was decisive for her artistic and cultural formation. Daughter of a mother painter, she was very close to the world of art.
Photography captivated her from the moment she had to use it as a requirement of her work as a Pedagogue and educator, paving the way in the field of the application of audiovisual resources and computers in education.
She is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography and the Escuela Superior de Fotografía with a diploma in Media Production from the Colegio Americano de Fotografía. Collaborator of the monthly magazine "Sale la Foto" distributed by the newspaper Reforma.
The photographic work of Silvia Marcos tries to show aspects of life that represent the positive, the joy, the beauty.