Artist Statement
 

I want you to forget to breathe. Just for a second. Like I did. When I saw the moment. The face. The smile. The light.

 

Bio

 

Marta Evry is an Emmy Award-nominated, Film & Television editor and producer best known for her work on The X-Files, HBO’s The Pacific and Lovecraft Country, Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle and Hunters, as well as Snowpiercer, House MD, and Castle.

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A native of Washington DC, her “career” in photography started in her mother’s darkroom, playing with photograms as a five year-old. By the time she was 10 she knew how to shoot a Hasselblad 500c, and at 18 she shot her first news assignment for the local paper - a Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue.

 

After moving to Los Angeles in 1987, Marta put photography mostly on hold while she built a career in the film industry, but in 2008 that all changed when she took a sabbatical to volunteer on the Obama Campaign as a Regional Field Organizer.

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Marta used her skills as a photographer and narrative filmmaker to document her work on the campaign, and several of her photographs from the first Inauguration were featured in “Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book.”

 

There were many social justice campaigns to follow - The campaign for the Affordable Care Act (aka: Obama Care), the campaign for farm worker safety, the campaign for Marriage Equality, Occupy Wall Street, the Resistance against Donald Trump and the campaign for Black Lives Matter. These experiences were all powerful lessons in how imagery can change perception and narrative, and with it, hearts and minds.

It’s a lesson Marta relearns every time she picks up a camera and focuses it on the world around her.

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Instagram: @marta_evry

Email: msblucow@mac.com