There’s a quiet energy in Marco Gasser’s work that doesn’t shout—it moves, flows, and sometimes even collides. Born in 1989 and working between Zurich and Barcelona, Marco is a self-taught director, photographer, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice lives at the meeting point of intuition and constant exploration. His world doesn’t sit still. It shifts, reacts, and blends—always somewhere between impulse and intention.
His photographs, mostly shot on Polaroid, are filled with a dynamic tension. They’re not still images as much as visual states—places where reality begins to blur, where textures and stories overlap. Marco brings to his photography a sensibility shaped by years of engaging with other forms of art—drawing, painting, graphic design, and graffiti. This early openness to multiple mediums became the base for his creative identity, and today, it fuels a process that often feels like controlled chaos. He doesn’t chase perfection; he creates space for surprise.
Each image is the result of movement—mental, emotional, and physical. His preparation is as important as the picture itself: a careful, patient process followed by a deliberate loosening of control. He sets the stage, then lets the moment lead. The light, the film, the instinct—everything is in conversation. There’s rhythm in his way of working, and you can feel it in the layers of his photographs, often dreamy, sometimes raw, always charged with emotion.
Marco’s recently published book, LAYERS, is a beautiful example of this evolution. Born from a late-night studio session in 2020, the project grew over four years into a deep and honest body of work combining instant photography with abstract painting. There’s no separation between mediums here—just flow. The result is a deeply personal visual diary filled with emotion, accidents, doubts, boldness, and the small beauty that emerges when you allow things to happen instead of forcing them into shape.
His work walks a fine line—between fragility and energy, between what we see and what we sense. Marco doesn’t aim to control the outcome but to stay present with it, trusting that something meaningful will surface. In doing so, he creates a space that feels alive. A space where photography becomes more than image—it becomes experience.