5 October 2020
Mak Alvarez: Spiritual Yet Social Photography
Mak (Macarena) Alvarez is a Chilean photographer and visual artist currently living in Amsterdam. Since high school, or as far as she remembers, Mak has been exploring diverse creative approaches as modern dance, documentary, and erotic photography and videos as well as plastic arts.
To her, all these disciplines have the conventional meaning of being therapy or a meditative way to explore her intimate self.
This article was originally published on Hue & Eye.
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