Marcia Simoes

Márcia Simões (Masimmo) is a Portuguese photographer and filmmaker based in Lisbon. Her practice moves between photography and moving image, combining a cinematic approach with an interest in painting, atmosphere and the emotional experience of place.
Working with both digital and analogue processes, she explores memory, displacement, intimacy and human presence through fragments of landscape, gesture, light and encounter. Her images often emerge from observation and travel, transforming ordinary moments and unfamiliar environments into quiet, emotionally charged scenes.
Simões is interested in what remains after a moment has passed, the feeling, atmosphere or image that continues to exist in memory after circumstances have disappeared. Her work moves between documentary observation and fiction, allowing ambiguity and imagination to become part of the image.
Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and published in editorial contexts, while her moving-image practice includes cinematography and directing. Through both mediums, she seeks to create images that are less about describing a place or moment than about evoking the psychological experience of being there.

Camera & Lighting — World Academy, Portugal
Training in cinematography, camera operation, lighting and visual storytelling.

Product Design — Escola Artística António Arroio, Lisbon, Portugal
Studies in visual arts, design and creative practice.

Law — University Degree
Academic background in Law, contributing to a broader understanding of social structures, human behaviour and contemporary culture.

2026 — OBJECTSX4 – 24H
Espace Parallèle, Paris, France

2025 — Undercover
Espaço Exibicionista Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2025 — Hunt Museum Open Submission
Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

2025 — Chinese Ceramics Through Contemporary Photography
Loureiro Studio, Lisbon, Portugal

2025 — Open Summer Madrid
International Virtual Exhibition, Madrid, Spain

2025 — Borrowed Earth
Anlan Coffee, Beijing, China

2025 — OBJECTSX4 – 24H
Collective Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal