"Golden Banana Pop Art" Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Monica Silva is a brazilian self taught photographer. Her first steps into photography happened in a very young age, shooting with polaroids and instamatics cameras. Keen of experiments in photography and specially on staged psychology portraiture, she creates complex projects on how the conflict between the existential and cultural daily life has a grip on the contemporary psyche of today’s society. Her works often inspires to great masters like Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Caravaggio, Horst P. Horst, Man Ray, Jeanloup Sieff, Peter Witkin, Andy Warhol.
Monica is a direct descendant of the Guarani tribe, from Spirito Santo region on her mother' side, and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1986 she moved to London to complete English studies.

A curious spirit and thirsty of learning, she moved on to Italy where she has been living for over 30 years. For many years she worked on commercial projects, creating album covers for international music labels and a series of portraits of movie stars, musicians, corporate managers and politics published on international editorial magazines and newspapers as Max, Corriere della Sera, Vanity Fair, Style, El Pais Sette, Istoè, Harpers Bazar, Vogue, Io Donna, Sunday Times Korea, Le Figarò, Veja Brasil, Panorama, Rolling Stone.

Numerous are the publications with her signature, including: "No News, Good News" G. Colin (Rizzoli), "It's a Nikon, It's an Icon" 100 years of Nikon in the eyes of 100 photographers, "Facce da MAC" (Apple) Alberto Pucci (Mondadori), "Sudari" G. Colin (Mondadori Electa ed.), "Shooting Yourself" Haje Jan Kamps (Contrast ed.), "Artist's Wall" La Lettura (Corriere della Sera Foundation), "Mythographies" G. Colin, "Libertà Perpetua" San Marino Unesco (Minerva ed.), "Il Panino dal Mare" Alessandro Frassica (Giunti Ed.)

CLIENTS PORTFOLIO:
 ENEL, UGF, HASSELBLAD, MANFROTTO, RCS GROUP, MONDADORI, ENI, UNESCO, PIQUADRO, PROCTER & GAMBLE, AMORIM, CONDE NAST, SONY MUSIC, ALVIN GRASSI DESIGN, NIKON, LOTTO SPORT, RAI, MINERVA ED., CEPIM SPA, REDA1865, EICMA, ROLLING STONE De Pace Ed.




MONICA SILVA IS AMBASSADOR FOR MANFROTTOAND NIKON