Maya Fuhr

Pro Type: Photographer

Maya Fuhr is a Los–Angeles based multimedia artist. Her images and world-building installations interrogate the role of iconography in photography and consumer culture through the construction of identity. Across her work, whether she’s creating white-cube installations or shooting playful campaigns, her layered images oscillate with the tension between concealing and unveiling, inviting her audiences to peel back an image’s layers to explore what lingers beneath its surface.

Trained in film, Fuhr learned to consider what lies beyond the frame to be as crucial to the narrative as what’s within the frame. Her early analog film photography taught her the importance of anticipation, whether developing film or working with latex imprints; each step involves a careful, laborious gesture of image-making.
Her work ranges from culture-defining celebrity portraiture to influential advertising and fashion editorials, responding to photography’s evolving role in an increasingly commercialized culture.