MELANIA DE LEYVA
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Melania de Leyva was born in 1998.
Her love for the arts encouraged her to measure herself with drawing and painting techniques. Her first approach to photography was in 2009 when travelling in Europe, where she captured city life scenarios and, in the meantime, she started photographing herself with a series of black and white self-portraits drawing inspiration from Francesca Woodman. She steadily explores new techniques during her practice. In 2013 she presented to the public her first photographic project dedicated to the USA, Stars and Stripes, an ironic insight of their deepest contradictions.
Her works include drawings, selected objects and installations within her photographs.Over time, she started working at fashion photography, working both as a photographer and a model. The self portraits usually represent artistic nudes in line with the artist’s perception of herself. Therefore, nudity becomes a way to show the essence, which is automated in the other subjects, it stages a dimension that expresses, in the form of an illustrated work, concepts.
At the moment, she lives in the outskirts of Venice.
For Press & Work inquiries contact infomelaniadeleyva@gmail.com
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About
Melania de Leyva was born in 1998.
Her love for the arts encouraged her to measure herself with drawing and painting techniques. Her first approach to photography was in 2009 when travelling in Europe, where she captured city life scenarios and, in the meantime, she started photographing herself with a series of black and white self-portraits drawing inspiration from Francesca Woodman. She steadily explores new techniques during her practice. In 2013 she presented to the public her first photographic project dedicated to the USA, Stars and Stripes, an ironic insight of their deepest contradictions.
Her works include drawings, selected objects and installations within her photographs.Over time, she started working at fashion photography, working both as a photographer and a model. The self portraits usually represent artistic nudes in line with the artist’s perception of herself. Therefore, nudity becomes a way to show the essence, which is automated in the other subjects, it stages a dimension that expresses, in the form of an illustrated work, concepts.
At the moment, she lives in the outskirts of Venice.