08/02/2024
We are thrilled to announce our latest signing today. The wonderful Maria Lax has joined the roster. Weāre huge fans of Mariaās work and canāt wait to collaborate with her.
Maria is a Finnish photographer and director based between London and West Cork. Her projects explore themes of identity, belief and modern folklore and have been widely exhibited internationally. She has created commercial work for clients including Apple, Channel 4, Vogue Italia, Virgin Records, British Telecom and Samsung.
āLax was a winner of British Journal of Photographyās Female in Focus awards, 2019 and a finalist in the BJP Portrait of Humanity, 2020. She was a PHMuseum Photography Grant Finalist in 2020; selected as one of the āBest New Talent of Photo London 2020ā by the Guardian; and received the Finnish Art Promotion Centreās One Year Grant in 2021.
āShe has published two photo books, Taken by the Tide (Nazraeli Press, 2023) and Some Kind of Heavenly Fire (Setanta Books, 2020).
To see more of Mariaās work click on the link in our bio or go to https://assembly.ie/ maria-lax/