Marco Dirr graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. His artistic practice combines analogue and digital methods with darkroom experimentation and fictional texts. His diploma project Aporía was presented in 2020 as a solo exhibition at Galerie KUB in Leipzig. In 2021, he was a resident at Casa Sasso in Ticino. In 2022 and 2023, he received a scholarship from the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of the Neustart Kultur program. Since 2023, he is completing a postgraduate master class program under Prof. Tamara Grcic at the Art Academy Mainz. In 2024, the jury of the German Photographic Society honored the work Aporía with a honorable mention at the DGPh Emerging Photographer Award.

Marco Dirr’s photographs draws viewers into the process of reflection and contemplation, through analog transformations of color and material the images question the ways in which we perceive and interpret the world around us. The visual language, both poetic and performative, challenges traditional systems of order and hierarchy, while inviting viewers to reconsider what reality could be. His aesthetic draws on observations of nature and contemporary portraiture, and is characterized by a pronounced sense of experimentation with analog and digital techniques in the darkroom.