Marco Ferraris

Visual artist with deep interest in documentary projects, he has always practiced photography as a passion and as a pursuit of knowledge.

After graduating in psychology in 2005 with a thesis on visual perception, begins his professional work in the reportage and portraits.

Specializes in professional lighting to EFTI in Madrid.

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 directed his first shortfilm Zapatos Rojos and founded 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.

Different workshops are essential for its formation: Patrizia Savarese, Ferdinando Scianna, Francesco Jodice, Francesco Zizola, Stefano De Luigi, Angelo Turetta, Micael Ackerman, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Ander Petersen.

At present he lives and works between Genoa, Madrid and Ibiza.

2009 Master’s degree in professional lighting, EFTI, Madrid

2005 Degree in psychology, Parma University,(Italy)

Solo exhibitions
2010 End of Reality, Centro Covibar, Madrid
2007 Passaggi di Tempo, Svista su Piazza, Turin

Group exhibitions and awards
2014 Group Exhibition in Malaga for 3rd International Biennial of Fine Art Photography
2014 Finalist at 6th Edition of Pollux Award in Fine Art & Nude & Figure
2014 Group Exhibition Love at Darkroom Gallery
2014 Digital Group Exhibition for See.me at Armony Week, New York
2014 Bronze finalist at Photo Shoot Awards Nude 2014
2013 Finalist for Fine Arts Nude at One Eyeland photography awards
2013 Honorable mention at GrandPrix de la Découverte
2013 C. I.J. Chissano, AsVozes das Águas, Maputo-Mozambique
2013 I'll be your mirror at 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Honorable mention at Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2011 Honorable mention at NVAL, North Valley-California
2011 The short film Zapatos Rojos at Notodo Film Festival, Madrid
2011 San Francisco International PhotographyExhibition
2010 IEP at Festival Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
2010 Italian emerging Photography, Paris
2010 Selected for Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid
2010 Selected for Edicion de libros, Madrid
2009 In/Comunicazione exhibition, Genoa
2009 Mention of honour, Tau Visual, Milan,
2009 Finalist...