Sergio MARRAS

Sergio Marras

Writer & Photographer

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Sergio Marras (Chile 1950) is a multidisciplinary professional focussed on Arts and Communications. He holds BAs in Journalism and Sociology (Catholic University of Chile), as well as an MA and a PhD in Spanish-American Literature (University of Chile).

He has been a writer and photographer for various print and audiovisual media in Latin America, the United States, China and Spain. Among his published work we find novels, journalism and photography books.

He started his photography career in his homeland in the early seventies, but spent his most formative years in Spain. There he became involved in the dynamic, innovative photography scene that followed the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

Upon his return to Chile in the late '70s, Marras worked as deputy director and cultural editor of APSI magazine, a publication that gave a voice to the opposition of the Pinochet regime.  During those years, he continued to work as a photographer for a variety of magazines. In 1981, he founded Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco giving space to a generation of young writers who had no way to publish in the main publishing groups under the Pinochet regime.

In Ornitorrinco and APSI, Marras became involved in the photographic documentation and publication of artists and writers such as Lotty Rosenfeld, Carlos Leppe, Marcela Serrano, Diamela Eltit, Claudio Bertoni, Sonia Montecino, Antonio Gil, Marco Antonio de la Parra, Narvaez, Elizabeth Subercaseaux , among many others. In 1984, Marras was commissioned by the renowned Chilean visual artist, Juan Downey, for a photographic work on the refraction of light based on the work of Downey The Looking Glass.

Nowadays, he is working on a photography project that examines the concept of normality as the most abnormal concept ever conceived.

He is currently Executive Producer of Ornitorrinco.

He lives in London and Madrid.