MC2.8: Maria Chiara Maffi and Chiara Giancamilli are a female duo of fine art photographers. What bounds them together is the passion for art and photography.

Maria Chiara Maffi was born in Bergamo in 1992. She graduated in economics and languages in Treviglio (Bg) soon discovering her real passion: photography. In 2013, she attended the photography course at the European Institute of Design in Milan. Afterward, she worked for a year and a half as an assistant photographer in a communications agency in Milan. She won a scholarship at the Raffles Fashion and Design Institute of Milan and she attended a Master in photography directed by Denis Curti. She designed the photographic project Genera-azioni about the city of Milan. Then, she took part in a workshop of several months with Giovanni Gastel, Matthias Harder, Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Aida Muluneh. In June 2018, she presented the project Quarantacinque in the exhibition The Embarrassment Show curated by Erik Kessels at O’gallery (Milan). In 2018, three photographs of her project (S)Oggetti have been published in the magazine The Fashionable Lampoon (Issue14). In the same year, she founded the photographic duo MC2.8 with Chiara Giancamilli. In 2018, she won PHOTOLUX in Lucca with the best portfolio. This success consented her to be featured on the famous Italian website called amica.it. She was among the ADG Photo Contest 2019 finalists announced by ADGALLERY. In May 2019 she participated in the MILAN PHOTO FESTIVAL at the gallery Gli eroici furori in Milan with DOPPIO SGUARDO to present her photographic research: I have brown eyes, curated by Alessia Locatelli. She wins the MALAMEGI Lab.12 Art prize acquisition with an exhibition happening at Hernandez Art Gallery (Milan). Later, she presented a MC2.8’s solo exhibition at SPECCHIO41 (Brescia), curated by Pietro Bazzoli. In July 2019 she has been selected as a finalist of the CIRCUITO OFF in the contest of the PONTREMOLIFOTOFESTIVAL.

Chiara Giancamilli was born in Rome on 6 August 1993. After her artistic high school diploma got in 2013, she enrolled in the Faculty of Photography at Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), where she graduated. In 2017 she participated in the exhibition Il mio sguardo at MICRO (Rome). In the same year one of his videos, entitled Il vento come il tempo, was selected to participate in Screening at the Live Cinema Festival – MACRO in Via Nizza (Rome). In 2018 she began a Master in Photography at Raffles Milan directed by Denis Curti, where she met prominent figures such as Matthias Harder and Ferdinando Scianna. After the workshop with Erik Kessels, she exhibited in a collective exhibition in The embarassment show – in O ’gallery (Milan). In the same year, she founded the photographic duo MC2.8 with Maria Chiara Maffi. In 2019 she exhibited at the 7th modern and contemporary art exhibition/market in Pavia Art, and later at VeniceArt – the Arsenale (Roncade). MC2.8 solo exhibition La trasparenza dell’immagine opened at SPECCHIO41 (Brescia), curated by Pietro Bazzoli and being selected as a finalist in the CIRCUITO OFF in the context of PONTREMOLIFOTOFESTIVAL and PREMIO NOCIVELLI.

MC2.8’s photographic research entitled Opera Nostra is finalist to SIMULTANEI 2019, with a special mention from ARTEPADOVA 2019 and selected in the online gallery EXPOSURE 2020 of LensCulture.

About ‘OPERA NOSTRA’ – words by ‘MC2.8’:

 “Ho visitato tantissimi luoghi per fare campionamenti insieme a scienziati e ricercatori, e abbiamo trovato sacchetti ovunque: nei ghiacci polari e nel mare Artico, nel fiume Po e nel Mediterraneo. Ne abbiamo visti perfino sulle vette delle montagne.” (Franco Borgogno – autore de “Un Mare di plastica”)

To change something, just “do” something. Anyone can contribute to a change, with their own means. We realized a photographic project.

The whole world throws its nets, receiving plastic in exchange. The same net gives life to a small red fish, called to represent the entire marine community, in which plastic fragments are recognizable. In Asia, Africa, America and Europe the rivers that pour most pollution into the sea are: the Yangtze in China that transports up to 1.5 million tons of plastic into the sea every year, the Nile that flows into the Mediterranean Sea , the Amazon River in Brazil and the Danube in Romania that carries from 530 to 1500 tons. Localized through the Google Earth server, we imprinted the course of these rivers in photographs that have been inkjet printed on transparent plastic sheets. They have been photographed on a white wall that, with its texture, brings us back to the stalemate of the pollution on the sea. A subject that finds itself executioner and victim of its own household waste (suffice it to say that through food and water, humans introduce 50 thousand plastic particles into the body)which is flanked by one of the industrial realities, dealing with the recycling of plastic materials in the Italian territory is Italrec srl.
Here, large HD polyethylene walls, industrial material and polypropylene have new life through recycling.