Monika Maroziene is a visionary Lithuanian photographer whose work merges art and science. With a master’s degree in chemistry and a deep artistic drive, she bridges these two fields to create a photographic style that is both technical and poetic.
Always exploring ways to incorporate her scientific background, she experiments with melting pine tree resin onto her prints. This adds a tactile quality, warmth, and durability to her work. The resin acts as both a preservative and a nostalgic reference to the Amber Coast—her childhood landscape and a lasting source of inspiration.
Her latest project, “Woman and The Sea”, embodies this fusion. Using pine tree resin—not fossilised amber—she enhances her black-and-white photographs with a soft yellow hue and antioxidant properties. The result preserves the images while anchoring them in memories of sunlit shores. For Monika, amber symbolises beauty and preservation, mirroring the complexity and strength of her female subjects, much like the serene yet wild landscape of the Curonian Spit.
Her photographs, rich in poetic irony and quiet melancholy, offer deep introspection. “Through my lens, I capture moments to liberate myself from the past,” she reflects. Her connection to childhood solitude and nature—the calls of seagulls, the rhythm of the sea—echoes throughout her work. Black-and-white, she says, offers distance from reality while evoking longing and nostalgia. “I often dream of the Amber Coast, wishing it could last forever.”
Monika Maroziene has been awarded as:
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1st
place winner: Fine Art Photographer of The Year 2024 at Monochrome Photography
Awards 2024
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1st
place winner in Fine Art and Gold winner in Fine Art/Portrait at Tokyo
International Foto Awards 2024 (Tifa)
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Silver winner at the Prix de la Photographie Paris
(Px3) 2024
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Silver
winner in Fine Art / Nudes at Budapest International Foto Awards (Bifa) 2024
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Bronze
and Honorable Mention in Fine Art at Exposure One Awards 2025
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Bronze
in Fine Art at One Eyeland Awards 2024
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Honorable
Mention at the International Photography Awards (IPA) 2024
Her captivating work was showcased at
Trieste Photo Days, and she is a featured author in the
official URBAN Photo Awards catalogue, “URBAN Unveils the City and its
Secrets - Vol. 10” and in Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book 2024.
She has a solo exhibition at Petra Gut
Contemporary Art Gallery in Switzerland and her work was in the group
exhibition, leading photography magazine “Profifoto” during the opening week of
the 56th Rencontres d’Arles 2025.
