Maria Guzman 
The Shape of What Remains
Edition 1/3 
16 x 20 inch
 
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art 
 
$145 AUD 
Includes GST & postage within Australia 
 
Bio
Maria Guzman is a Chilean-born, Perth/Boorloo-based fine art film photographer whose practice explores embodiment, feminine energy, and the quiet power of slowing down. With a Fine Art degree majoring in painting, Maria approaches photography with an artist’s eye, blending her background in visual arts with a self-taught dedication to analogue film.
 
Working primarily with women, her portraiture is rooted in presence and trust, creating space for stories that unfold beyond the surface. Her images often reflect the same organic rhythms she finds in nature, drawing on light, texture, and landscape as integral parts of her work.
 
Since relocating to Australia in 2016, Maria has developed a body of work that bridges personal narrative and universal themes of belonging, healing, and self-expression. Her photographs move between the intimate and the expansive, weaving together editorial influence with a documentary sensibility. Shooting exclusively on film, she embraces the medium’s limitations and tactile process as a way of honouring slowness, imperfection, and depth.
 
Through her practice, Maria invites viewers into moments of softness and reflection, while advocating for photography as a tool for connection, empowerment, and a deeper attunement to the natural world.
 
Statement 
This photograph emerges from a space of grief and return. The double exposure weaves figure and branch together, blurring edges until they become inseparable, a body held within the quiet persistence of nature. The layering speaks to the way loss reshapes us, how absence and presence entwine, how we carry memory in everything we touch.
 
The branches, fragile yet resilient, reach across the frame, echoing the tangled process of mourning. They obscure and reveal in equal measure, suggesting that grief is not something to move beyond but something to live alongside. It alters form, softens certainty, and teaches us to hold both sorrow and beauty in the same breath.
 
Shot in black and white, the image strips back distraction, leaving only texture, shadow, and light. In its grain, the photograph mirrors the rawness of loss, yet also its capacity to carve new shapes within us.
 
This work is not about resolution, but about becoming whole again with what remains. It is a quiet meditation on learning to carry absence, to root oneself in the present, and to find home in the body that grieves and endures. It is a reminder that even in the most fractured places, life continues to grow, and within that growth, a different kind of wholeness can be found.