The portrait is a tool of expression as powerful as music or painting. When we manage to connect sincerely and deeply with the person we photograph, the result of the image speaks as much about them as it does about us as photographers. In this workshop we will experience a live shooting and Mara will tell you how she expresses her way of feeling and conceiving the world through the people she photographs and herself through the self-portrait.

Mara Saiz is dedicated to artistic portraiture. She has never been satisfied with the world as it appeared before her eyes. Her great vocation is as simple as it is immense: TO SEE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL. With the spirit of an artist since childhood and having excelled in other disciplines such as theatre or music, she found her path in photography, as it became a powerful channel through which to express her creativity, her own conception of the world, of beauty, art and colour. She discovered that her camera was a very special way to get in direct contact with people’s souls and to help them on the path of self-knowledge and self-esteem through the Artistic/Pictorial Portrait. She gives special prominence to the connection of the human being with his own essence and the importance of the empowerment of colour.