Art Wednesday

Words by Lucy Glover.

Marlowe Tatiana Granados is who we would describe as a ‘busy bee’. A photographer and writer with a love for music (and cats, judging by some of the photos on her website), she happily travelled around the world at the tender age of sixteen busily snapping away.  On return to her native town of Toronto she then set to work creating her first online magazine to showcase the artists and musicians that had inspired her, and to build a name for her and her work. In 2008 she produced her first zine ‘Hedonism’, concluding her online magazine the following year with a collection of in-depth interviews with worldwide artists and a prolific photo diary. In late 2009 she moved to London, where she lives and works today. Phew, all that and she’s only 19.

Her photographs (and main motivation), often of ‘long-time’ friends as she calls them, are very personal, and those, particularly of musicians give us the sense of being behind the scenes, whilst leaving us to question what had happened before the photo was taken. What we mean to say here is that her photography is thought-provoking; there’s always a story behind each image.

During a lull in her love for photography, she focused her energies on founding Petite—Anarchy (she’s not one for being idle), an online gallery of sorts or platform with which to exhibit a handful of artists and writers that she had carefully selected. Luckily that lull didn’t last for long and her work has since matured at a quiet and steady pace, as she develops projects that are specifically very personal and significant to her. Her most recent is her first book I am no longer Alaska that’s dedicated to her mother and is exclusively available at Colette.

To visit Marlowe’s site [click here]