Monica Silva

Bananas

2023

BIO Monica Silva is a poliedric photographer and art director. Her first steps into photography happened in a very young age, shooting with polaroids and instamatics cameras. Keen of experiments in photography and specially on staged psychology portraiture, she creates complex projects on how the conflict between the existential and cultural daily life has a grip on the contemporary psyche of today’s society. Monica is a descendant of Tupi Guarani indigenous tribe and was raised in Sao Paulo in Brazil until 1986 year in which she moved to London to complete english studies. A curious spirit and thirsty of learning, she moved on to Italy where she has been living for 31 years. For many years she worked on commercial projects, creating album covers for international music labels and several portraits of movie stars, musicians, corporate managers and politics published on international editorial magazines and newspapers as Max, Corriere della Sera, Vanity Fair, Style, El Pais, Sette, Io Donna, Rolling Stone, Panorama. November 2018 Monica publishes a limited art book series for Libreria Bocca 1775. In 2019 in partnership with chef Alessandro Frassica she publishes a book of recipes by Giunti Ed.