Marco Ferraris
El Origen (Single)
DESCRIPTION
EL ORIGEN is the first section of the wider project, La Isla.
El Origin studies the Origin of the human being and its connection with the forces of nature.
Self-knowledge and the interconnection with the 4 elements: earth, air, water and fire represented as well in the different archetypes.
AUTHOR
Visual artist with deep interest in documentary projects, he has always practiced pho-
tography as a passion and as a pursuit of knowledge.
After graduating in psychology in 2005 with a thesis on visual perception, he begins
his professional work in the photo reportage and portraits.
In 2007, the series called Passages of Time becomes in Turin his first solo exhibition curated by Valeria De Simoni.
In 2011 the series End of Reality, is selected for Italian Emerging Photography by
Laura Serani and projected in France, Turkey and Italy.
In the same year he directs his first shortfilm Zapatos Rojos and founds the production group Sustancias Activas.
In his latest project “La Isla” (2010-2013), where the island is an archetypal site and a
place in which man is free to give life to new utopias of regeneration, he has combined
photography and video at the same time counting with the participation of more than 70 performers.
He completes his formation participating in workshops with: Patrizia Savarese, Ferdi-
nando Scianna, Francesco Jodice, Francesco Zizola, Stefano De Luigi, Angelo Turet-
ta, Micael Ackerman, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Ander Petersen.
At present he lives and works between Genoa, Madrid and Ibiza.
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