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At the intersection of fashion, photography, film, stagecraft, and design, artist Marina Fini creates hallucinatory, alternative worlds. Based in California, she collaborates with friends and artists alike in the staging of these otherworldly scenes, using colorful costumes and her own handmade, plexiglass jewelry to turn her photographic subjects into ethereal cyber goddesses. When asked how she builds these characters, Fini remarked, “there’s something about transforming someone into someone they wouldn’t normally be … that is, creating an extension of themselves that I see in them.” All of her characters exude a captivating power, like the whimsical and intangible figures seen through a psychedelic dream. By exploring alternative selves in familiar contexts – a convenience store, or the Californian seaside, for example – Fini explores how subjecthood is fluid, and how such creative “shape-shifting” can alter the way we perceive our immediate reality.

I am an Illustrator based in Passau, South Germany working for editorial, cultural and commercial clients such as Apple, Rimowa, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Die Zeit, the Bavarian State Opera.

Carla Step is a Barcelona based photographer and artist. She explores the world with an intimate eye and a strong connection with nature. Her work includes fashion, architecture, and travel photography, as well as portraits and landscapes from her day to day.

photographer, visual artist, visual story teller, founder of FiLBooks Istanbul, lecturer