About Maria Lax

Maria Lax is a London based photographer originally from a small town in Northern Finland. She is known for her use of colour and seamlessly blending reality and fantasy in her work and Maria’s background in cinematography shines through in her strong use of lighting and experimental camera techniques.

Her work has been exhibited worldwide and published in The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, WIRED, American Suburb X and Financial Times among others. She is one of the winners of British Journal Photography’s Female in Focus awards 2019 and her project 'Some Kind of Heavenly Fire' was shortlisted for the PHmuseum Photography Grant 2020.

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