Melanie Magassa is a german-french photographer and video artist. She started out working as a magazine editor and art director in New York City. After relocating to Sweden Melanie continued her work in art direction, then gradually moved on to photography and video.

Magassa studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Tokyo Zokei University in Japan and graduated from the School of Photography at Gothenburg University in Sweden. She has collaborated with magazines such as Standard, Vice, etc. and has produced projects for the Keith Haring Foundation as well as for Universal Records.

Melanie's current project is a photographic pop up book entitled "Reverie", a collaboration with visual artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo.

Selected Exhibitions
2011 Preview Berlin/ Art Fair, "Reverie" with Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Berlin
2011 Death Of Print, End of Century, New York City
2011 Kids, Väsby Konsthall, Stockholm Län
2010 Salon für Fotografie, Vidvinkel & Swedish Embassy, Berlin
2008 - 2009 Ella Bienalle, Gothenburg
2009 Berns, Vidwinkel, Stockholm
2009 Dask Gallery, Copenhagen
2008 Röda Sten, Gothenburg
2008 Club Vernissage, Gothenburg
2008 Le Baron de Paris, Tokyo
2007 & 2008 Zokei Gallery, Tokyo
2007 Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg

Links
Wreck Creative Studios
Dask Gallery
Noll Images
Standard Magazine
Vice
Le Baron de Paris - Tokyo
Kamisol
YPU
Seek
Malin Nilsson