Two players against a clay-coloured wall in late afternoon light, Los Angeles

Art Direction+ Photography

Los Angeles

Fashion · Beauty · Lifestyle

Now showing

Year of OursSummer '25 — Campaign

Adam Selman × Carbon38Campaign — Art Direction

Dion Lee × Carbon38Campaign — Art Direction

Eleven by Venus WilliamsCampaign — Art Direction

Pam & GelaCampaign — Photography

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Concept to delivery

I started as an art director, so Isee the whole shoot — the strategy,the crew, the shot list — and thenI pick up the camera.

Which means a brand can hand me a season and get it back finished. I have spent most of my career inside marketing teams, so I am fluent in the unglamorous half too — deadlines, asset lists, what has to be live by Friday. That is why the creative survives contact with the calendar.

01
Direct
Strategy, concept, casting, location and styling direction — then the shot list, and staying on set to protect the idea while it is being made.
02
Shoot
Campaign on location, studio built to sell, and ecommerce that matches the campaign it sits beside. Film and digital, both.
03
Deliver
Selects, retouching and final files sized for site, email, paid and social — on the date the ecommerce team actually needs them.

Selected work

10 projects — 2018 / 2025

A model in leopard-print against a cyan studio wall, hands raised to her head

Adam Selman × Carbon382019

A campaign is not a set of pictures.It is one idea, held steadyfrom the first mood board to thefile that goes live on Friday.

Maria Massa Cronin — Art Director & Photographer

The edit

Frames across the archive

A model in red mesh crouching against a pale studio backdrop — Dion Lee × Carbon382022

A model in a printed shirt in a doorway, shot on 35mm — Pam & Gela2022

A player at the net in pink, palm trees behind, shot on film — Year of Ours2025

The back of a printed sweatshirt in warm interior light — Anine Bing2022

Two figures running past a pool along a pink wall, Palm Springs — Eleven by Venus Williams2022

A model against a batting cage in a shearling jacket, film border intact — Year of Ours2025

A model in a yellow knit against pale blue sheeting — Paco Rabanne — Carbon382022

A model reclining in black against a red studio wall — Adam Selman × Carbon382019

A model holding a purple bar against a magenta studio wall — Isabel Marant — Carbon382022

A model in black mesh reclining on crumpled white paper — Dion Lee × Carbon382022

A model in a striped track top against a hanging white sheet, shot on 35mm — Pam & Gela2022

A player on a mint court in a pleated skirt and cardigan — Year of Ours2025

Selected clients

Carbon38—Anine Bing—Year of Ours—Dion Lee—Adam Selman—Isabel Marant—Paco Rabanne—Pam & Gela—Eleven by Venus Williams—Carbon38—Anine Bing—Year of Ours—Dion Lee—Adam Selman—Isabel Marant—Paco Rabanne—Pam & Gela—Eleven by Venus Williams—

Eleven by Venus Williams—Pam & Gela—Paco Rabanne—Isabel Marant—Adam Selman—Dion Lee—Year of Ours—Anine Bing—Carbon38—Eleven by Venus Williams—Pam & Gela—Paco Rabanne—Isabel Marant—Adam Selman—Dion Lee—Year of Ours—Anine Bing—Carbon38—

Clients include Carbon38, Anine Bing, Year of Ours, Dion Lee, Adam Selman, Isabel Marant, Paco Rabanne, Pam & Gela, Eleven by Venus Williams.

Contact

Tell me aboutthe shoot.

Campaign, studio, ecommerce, or art direction alongside another photographer. Brands shooting on a regular cadence are especially welcome — so are test shoots.

hello@mariamassa.com

Based: Los Angeles — available to travel
Elsewhere: Instagram

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Art Direction+ Photography

I started as an art director, so Isee the whole shoot — the strategy,the crew, the shot list — and thenI pick up the camera.

Direct

Shoot

Deliver

Selected clients

Tell me aboutthe shoot.