Maria Perianez

Biography

Maria Perianez, originally from Spain, started her photography journey in her childhood with disposable cameras in the 90s. Her photography has always been linked to the people and places surrounding them. Between 2007 and 2008, she pursued a advanced technician’s certificate in artistic photography. She became interested in marginalized people and initiated an analogue project on the homeless in Huelva. Intrigued by the socio-political movement, she began a series on the consequences of the Spanish economic crisis in 2008.
In 2009, she enters the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she specialized in graphic design and imagery, obtaining her degree in 2014. Following university, the job situation remained very difficult in the country due to the collateral effects of the economic crisis. In November of the same year, she moved to Paris with the intention of learning the language and later pursuing a master’s degree in documentary photography and photojournalism, which she completed between 2021 and 2022.
She has worked in different sectors (trade, luxury, tourism…), has made individual and collective exhibitions, has worked with influencers such as Misterbag and brands such as Mundosona and collaborated in Spain with the art gallery Chicago Art Place.
Since leaving school, she made some personal projects in France and beyond Europe, participated in a collective exhibition called «Les talents de demain» at the Galerie des Couleurs in Paris 18th, contributed to the book «Ce Monde-là» to celebrate the 30 years of the photojournalism program at the school of communication EMI-CFD Paris, and works for a Norman newspaper as a photographer and writer.