Q&A WITH DELFINA CARMONA & MARINA MÓNACO IN COOPERATION WITH C/O BERLIN

Berlin is loud, vibrant, and constantly changing. C/O Berlin and visitBerlin have jointly invited four photographers – Kristin Bethge, Delfina Carmona, Marina Mónaco, and Christian Werner – to capture their very personal view of the city. The result is a collection of images that showcase people, places, and hidden corners beyond the well-known attractions. With unexpected subjects and a diverse visual language, these photographs captivate and inspire. The goal of this unique art project is to see Berlin through fresh eyes – offering surprising new perspectives on the metropolis.

At Forward Festival Berlin, Delfina Carmona and Marina Mónaco will join a Q&A moderated by Duncan Ballantyne-Way (writer and editor) to share their experiences capturing the city through their project "Berlin Views".

Delfina Carmona is a photographer and art director from Argentina who currently lives in Berlin. With a background in theater and a career in professional photography, she dedicates herself to the visual arts and creative photography by constructing scenes and installations. Her work features small scenarios and performances, including self-portraits and compositions with objects and vibrant colors. Often surreal and dreamlike, her style embraces absurd aesthetics, reflections, and shadows, becoming a form of personal expression that opens a door to her emotional and sensitive world. Her search for a unique visual language and the distinctive aesthetics she developed have led her to collaborate with several brands and projects globally.

Marina Mónaco is a Berlin-based photographer and director from Buenos Aires. Since moving to Germany to join the Film Akademie Baden-Württemberg in 2020, she has explored the spectrum of youth culture across suburban Europe. Raw, vulnerable, unapologetic, her ongoing series Kids serves as the living manifesto of a generation she is part of. In 2023 she presented her first solo exhibition in Berlin, I Saw You in a Song, and published a book with the same title. In her Neue Welle series, she developed a signature style at the interface between documentary photography and dark, cold sound. Mónaco’s latest projects include a second publication release, I Saw You in a Song: An Anti-Memoir and a new exhibition in Berlin. In June 2024 she made her debut solo exhibition and artist residency program at Contact Photo in New York.

Image Credits:
Image 1 © Marina Monaco
Image 2 © Marina Monaco
Image 6 © Marina Monaco
Image 7 © Delfina Carmona "The spy", Berlin Karl Marx Allee, 2024
Image 8 © Delfina Carmona "The choreography of the city", Berlin Hansaviertel, 2024
Image 9 © Delfina Carmona "Out of the noise", Berlin Tiergarten, 2024
Image 10 Marina Monaco
Image 11 Delfina Carmona