Isa Marcelli was born in 1958 in Algeria. In 1996, she moved to the countryside, near Fontainebleau outside of Paris. There, she began to experiment with photography, having acquired a digital camera. Since 2010 Marcelli has (against the mainstream) experimented with alternative non-digital processes like the pinhole camera and the collodion wet plate process.

“Owing to my new life in a rural setting, I felt isolated and void that inspired me to physically explore my environment. It was also an internal journey, which gradually revealed to me the need to express myself through images.”