Maria Chiara
Maffi

Maria Chiara Maffi was born in Bergamo in 1992. She graduated in economics and languages in Treviglio (Bg), when she discovered her real passion: photography. In 2013, she attended the photography course at the European Institute of Design in Milan. Afterward, she worked for a year and a half, as an assistant photographer in a communications agency in Milan. She won a scholarship at the Raffles Fashion and Design Institute of Milan and she attended a Master in photography directed by Denis Curti. She designed the photographic project "Genera-azioni" about the city of Milan. Then, she took part in a workshop of several months with Giovanni Gastel, Matthias Harder, Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Aida Muluneh. In June 2018, she presented the project "Quarantacinque" in the exhibition "The Embarrassment Show" curated by Erik Kessels at O’gallery (Milan). In 2018, three photographs of her project "(S)Oggetti" have been published in the magazine "The Fashionable Lampoon" (Issue14).  In the same year, she founded the photographic duo MC2.8 with Chiara Giancamilli. In 2018, she won PHOTOLUX in Lucca with the best portfolio. This success consented her to be featured on the famous Italian website amica.it. It is among the ADG Photo Contest 2019 finalists announced by ADGALLERY.In May 2019 she participates in the MILAN PHOTO FESTIVAL at the gallery "Gli eroici furori" in Milan with DOPPIO SGUARDO presents her photographic research: I HAVE BROWN EYES, curated by Alessia Locatelli.She wins the MALAMEGI Lab.12 Art prize acquisition with an exhibition at Hernandez Art Gallery (Milan) Presents MC2.8's solo exhibition at SPECCHIO41 (Brescia), curated by Pietro Bazzoli. In July 2019 it is selected as a finalist of the CIRCUITO OFF in the context of the PONTREMOLIFOTOFESTIVAL.