MÁRCIA SIMÕES (MASIMMO) is a Lisbon-based photographer, videographer, and filmmaker whose work explores cinematic storytelling, emotion, memory, and contemporary visual culture. Through MASIMMO, she develops artistic and commercial projects that move between photography, film, fashion, documentary, and experimental aesthetics.
With a multidisciplinary background in product design, law, photography, documentary cinema, and camera & lighting studies, Márcia has built a creative career across Portugal’s film, fashion, and cultural industries. Her visual language is defined by cinematic composition, natural emotion, and a strong sensitivity to light, texture, and atmosphere.
Her work includes collaborations with film productions, musicians, fashion platforms, cultural institutions, and commercial brands, combining technical precision with an instinctive artistic vision. She has contributed to productions such as Waiting For The Blue, A Mother Goes To The Beach, and Fragmento, while also collaborating with ModaLisboa, Sacoor Brothers, Central Models, and independent cinema productions.
As a director of photography and filmmaker, MASIMMO explores themes of identity, intimacy, memory, and emotional presence. Her portfolio spans fashion photography, documentary filmmaking, backstage photography, music videos, branded visual content, and short films. She directed and produced the short film An Ordinary Summer Day and directed O Segredo dos Pássaros for AGL Productions.
Her artistic practice also extends into the exhibition space, where photography becomes a medium for atmosphere, emotion, and visual narrative. In December 2025, she presented GENESIS at the UNDERCOVER exhibition at Espaço Exibicionista in Lisbon, showcasing medium digital photography pieces that reflected her cinematic and intimate visual language. Her work has also been featured internationally through the virtual exhibition Open Summer Madrid 2025 with the piece Ophelia. In Ireland, her photographic work Horizon Without a Name was exhibited at the Hunt Museum, further expanding the international reach of her artistic practice.
Working across both digital photography and moving image, MASIMMO continues to create projects that merge contemporary art, cinema, and storytelling through a distinctive visual identity rooted in authenticity and cinematic sensitivity.
Education
MÁRCIA SIMÕES (MASIMMO) has developed a multidisciplinary educational background that combines visual arts, cinema, design, and critical studies, shaping her distinctive cinematic and artistic approach to photography and filmmaking.
She studied Product Design at António Arroio Art School between 2009 and 2012, where she developed a strong visual and conceptual foundation rooted in artistic experimentation and contemporary design practices. She later attended the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, expanding her analytical and cultural perspective through legal and social studies.
Her artistic specialization continued through several photography and cinema programs, including a Digital Photography Workshop at EXIST (2015), participation in the Artistic Lab MAAT at the EDP Foundation (2016), and professional training in Camera and Lighting at World Academy between 2020 and 2021.
More recently, she expanded her cinematic practice through the Documentary Film Course at KINO-DOC (2024–2025), reinforcing her interest in visual storytelling, human narratives, and documentary language.
This combination of artistic, technical, and interdisciplinary education continues to influence MASIMMO’s work across photography, film direction, cinematography, and contemporary visual art.
