Margherita Crocco is a young artist photographer living and working in Paris and New York. She spent her childhood between Switzerland and Italy, her mother’s country. She went to Paris where she started to study anthropology and obtained a Master of Anthropology focused on the women’s status through the collective imaginary.

She studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, where she learnt from Robert Blake, Frank Franka, Chuck Kelton.

In December 2005, she got a sholarship from ICP. She showed her series « paradoxalsvisions » during the “alternative” Month of Photography 2006, at the Galerie Sévigné / Sévigné Gallery in Paris. In 2006, she was selected for the « Focus on Monferrato » organised by the Tuscany Photographic Workshop, and also for the Infinity International Awards.

Taking pictures has become part of her life. It is the need to visually register parts of her life, the time of being, the time of life - her experience and the people around her. She uses photography to document what is around and inside her.

She seeks to give a sense of space and time by letting the viewer see through the photographs and experience the same emotions. The moments in her photography contain feeling and drama; sometimes candid, sometimes posed, full of realism or fantasy, based on her mood or an individual situation. Through photography, she tells stories, creates awareness and evokes emotions.

On the one hand, she is influenced by her academic background in anthropology. Part of her work is therefore focused on a utopian objectivity. On the other hand, she finds it necessary to use photography in a more abstract and plastic way.

She demonstrates that photography can be a social document on a subjective level and she combines, in an interesting way, fiction with reality, transparency with opacity, and depth with surface.