Born in 1958, ISA MARCELLI started her career in decoration in Paris. She created and made unique furniture and mosaics for individual clients and decorators, as well as for galleries like En Attendant les Barbares. In 2008, her interest turned to photography, and she quickly became passionate about working in the darkroom and finding ways to interpret her images in an intentional pictorialist manner. She turned to analog photography and has since continued to explore historical photographic processes. To this day, she practices large format photography, collodion, and various printing processes such as platinum, palladium, cyanotype, lith, and gum bichromate.

Her poetic work reveals a sensitive universe, where nature and humanity intertwine, delivering a vision of the world imbued with the fragility of existence.

Her work is regularly presented in galleries or museums both in France and internationally and has been published in various publications such as Shots, Eyemazing, and Black+White Photography.

Represented by the Johanna Breede gallery in Berlin, co-founder of the collodion portrait studio Les Photographeuses with Léa L'Azou, and winner of the CAFéFOTO Prize from the Iris Center for Photography and the Silver Medal from the Paris Photography Prize (Px3). She was also named one of the HOT 100 photographers of 2021 by YourDailyPhotograph.com.

She has had several solo exhibitions in galleries such as Johanna Breede in Berlin, L’Etoile du Nord in Paris, and The Garden of the Zodiac in Omaha, USA. Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Winter and Untitled at Johanna Breede Gallery in Berlin, Magic of Silence at Kunstverein in Berlin, and On Disappearance and Appearance/The Ephemeral in Photography at the Alfred Ehrard Foundation in Berlin. 

More of her work may be appreciated on her website and Instagram account.