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My name is Maria. I was born in Venezuela in 1993. I’m currently based in Argentina. I worked as a creative copywriter in advertising agencies for many years. I found my interest in visual storytelling in my late 20s, and I’ve never stopped since. I’ve been dedicating my spare time to street photography, mostly while traveling or in Buenos Aires, which has my favorite people to photograph.


My work stays on the digital ground with an analogic side. It focuses on the daily lives of strangers or mundane situations that might go unnoticed. I tell stories through them, or their stories are told through my lens. I’m drawn to either kitsch or minimal style; both have an important influence on my prints.
 




The pictures I never took are living in the back of my head. 

Strangers giving me content 



  act i
  • I always thought that people on the street 
          were posing for me. It could be a combination of ego:
          mine, believing that they really were, and theirs,
          wanting to be photographed.

    And now they live here.
    I like how they come out,
    I would like to show them.
    I also like that they have no idea."

  •      M.
       

Zoom with no context

  • act ii


  • Zooming in
  • the big picture.
  • Not everything
  • needs context. 


 

[Fanzine Enclosure]
    Extraños — The spanish 
    version of Strangers 
    Giving me Content was the
    concept I wanted to put
    together and publish as my
    first printed project.

  • Printed and edited in
  • Buenos Aires, 2023.

TODAY’S 
RENAISSANCE

 
Nothing ever really changed. 
We are still living in a renaissance frame.                                
Except this time is a iPhone photo, instead of a painting.

act iii 
 


=

(It’s always sunny 
when I’m shooting)


🌞
act iv

Whatever is left in my folders that still is worth sharing.   





María Alejandra Aponte, 2023              All Rights Reserved