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Marlena is a photographer based in Berlin. She works on assignment for national and international media. In her personal projects she intimately explores gender and power relations. Her work has been published, awarded and exhibited internationally.

Marlena is available for assignments and collaborations around the world.

She is a member of Women Photograph.

Marlena is fluent in German, English, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese and speaks some French.
  • Art Magazin (DE)
  • Berliner Zeitung (DE)
  • Bloomberg Business Week (US)
  • Bref (CH)
  • Brigitte Wir (DE)
  • Brigitte Woman (DE)
  • Capital (DE)
  • CNN (US)
  • fluter (DE)
  • Focus (DE)
  • Der Freitag (DE)
  • Geo (DE)
  • Geo Wissen (DE)
  • Greenpeace Magazin (DE)
  • GRL PWR (DE)
  • Internazionale (IT)
  • Manager Magazin (DE)
  • De Morgen (BE)
  • Philosophie Magazin (DE)

  • Photographie (DE)
  • Politiken (DK)
  • Psychologie Heute (DE)
  • Spiegel (DE)
  • Spiegel Online (DE)
  • Spiegel Wissen (DE)
  • Stern (DE)
  • Stern View (DE)
  • TAZ Futurzwei (DE)
  • De Volkskrant (NL)
  • Volkskrant Magazine (NL)
  • vogue.com (US)
  • vox.com (US)
  • Die Zeit (DE)
  • Zeit Online (DE)




AWARDS  /  RECOGNITIONS




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2016




Feature Shoot Emerging Photographer (Mohamad, winner)

Nannen-Preis (brothers, shortlisted)
Prix Voies-Off (Noiva do Cordeiro, nominated)
Alfred Fried Photography Price (Noiva do Cordeiro, shortlisted)
German Peace Prize of Photography (Noiva do Cordeiro, shortlisted)
Belfast Photo Festival (Noiva do Cordeiro, shortlisted)
The FENCE (brothers, winner)

UNICEF Picture of the Year Award (Mohamad, honorable mention)
PDN Emerging Photographer Fall 2018 (Mohamad, winner)

World Press Joop Swart Masterclass (nominated)


VGH Photo Award (brothers, winner)
Freelens Award (brothers, nominated)
Balkan Photo Award (brothers, nominated)
Feature Shoot Emerging Photographer (brothers, winner)






EXHIBITIONS




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2016
IN WAVES #womenincovid Berlin, Germany (Max und Alex, group)
It’s a Women’s World, Freelens Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (Noiva do Cordeiro, group)
Schein oder Sein, Kunsthaus Mestlin, Germany (Noiva do Cordeiro, group)
Halt, Städtische Galerie Bergkamen, Germany (Corona Blues, group)


The FENCE in Houston, Atlanta and Sarasota (brothers, group)
PDN Emerging Photographer, Aperture Gallery, NY (brothers, group)
Helsinki Photo Festival, Helsinki, Finland(Noiva do Cordeiro, group)


The FENCE in Brooklyn, Denver, and Seattle, US (brothers, group)
Prix Voies Off, Arles, France (Noiva do Cordeiro, screening)
Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech, Morroco (Noiva do Cordeiro, screening)


UNICEF Picture of the Year Award, Bundespresseamt Berlin, Germany (Mohamad, group)


Kunstverein Cuxhaven, Germany (bothers, solo)
Kaiserpfalz Gosslar, Germany (brothers, solo)
Despacio San José, Costa Rica (brothers, solo)


VGH Gallery, Hanover, Germany (brothers, solo)
United Photo Industries, NY, USA (brothers, group)
5th Lumix-Festival for Young Photojournalism, Germany (brothers, group)
Visa OFF Perpignan, France (brothers, group)