Marzia Messina Italian creative and Sham Hinchey Anglo-Italian photographer & DP are a duo who met in Rome. In 2002 they began a full-time collaboration under the name “Marshamstreet”. They work on advertising campaigns and fine art projects where focus is often centered around social issues. In 2013 they moved to NYC to pursue their professional and artistic careers.
We are fascinated by humankind in all its forms and expressions. We are avid people watchers, but also drawn to the evocative power of the urban landscape - silent and empty - where human elements are perceived only by their absence through time.
We feel a calling to forgotten places, where marginal existences flourish despite hardship. We are equally sensitive to the social themes which touch and beckon us, attracted by the communicative strength of faces and unconventional beauty, through light that reveals, amplifies, or hides.
A still or moving portrait encapsulates these elements while allowing us to come within reach of extraordinary stories and lives which enrich and shape our artistic paths, along with existence itself.
In a seemingly incompatible duo such as ours, sharing lives and artistic professions in which personal philosophies and cultural diversities collide but then somehow merge, a common language forms which sometimes sparks an artistic project.
Weather The Storm
For BAU 18 - Container of Contemporary Art
The BAU project invites artists to submit original works to be included in a box entitled The Container of Contemporary Culture. BAU - 18 is in an edition of 120 boxes with original works, numbered and signed, by 63 artists from Italy and New York.
Brooklyn - New York
Group Exhibition
Saguaro
Presentation of the Art Magazine - IRAE Edition
Rome, Italy
Saguaro
9 images from the series "Saguaro" published in the second edition of Italian Art Magazine IRAE: "This is (not) the end" a special issue dedicated to rebirth.
Saguaro
A triptych from the series "Saguaro" for "Yesterday is the future - The evolution of art".
Manhattan, New York
Group Exhibition
Weather The Storm
BAU 18 - Container of Contemporary Art
Milan, Italy
Presentation
Weather The Storm
BAU 18 - Container of Contemporary Art
Pietrasanta, Italy
Group Exhibition
Weather The Storm
The BAU project invites artists to submit original works to be included in a box entitled The Container of Contemporary Culture. BAU - 18 is in an edition of 120 boxes with original works, numbered and signed, by 63 artists from Italy and New York.
From issue n. 0 to issue 18, the BAU "network" has involved over 830 artists from more than 35 countries. The BAU box is held in museums, foundations, and public collections, including MART in Rovereto, Tate Modern Library in London; Museo del Novecento, Triennale and Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan; The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the Yale University; the Bibliothèque Kandinsky of the Center Pompidou in Paris and the University of Iowa Libraries.
Why am I even here
Finalists | Video Art
Arsenale Nord of Venice
Venice, Italy
Why am I even here
Finalists | Video Art
Official selection - SIFA Festival Awards
Canada
Why am I even here
Instability and Precariousness
Video Art and Photos
Millepiani Gallery | Rome, Italy
Group exhibition
Why am I even here
Semifinalist | Video Art
Norrbotten, Sweden
Why Am I Even Here
A selected image for MCNY's “Stories”
New Yorkers in telling the story of how the city has responded to the racial justice movement and the ongoing pandemic of CoVid-19
Women of Providence House
Group Exhibition
Dear Daughters
Online Exhibition | Journal | Featured Story
365D - Trecentosessantacinque giorni da Donna
Featured in the LensCulture Portrait Awards
Competition Gallery
A Singular Mass
Online Exhibition | Collection
Women of Providence House
Online Exhibition | Feature in Borders, Boundaries, Edges
365D - Trecentosessantacinque giorni da Donna
Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman
365 Photographic portraits of women exhibited in one of Rome’s most evocative and important Capitaline Museums.
The show launched the book "365D" 365 photographic images alongside which each woman narrates a true short story of a day in their life.
The project boasts among others, the patronage of the Ministery for equal opportunities and Rome province’s cultural dept
Capitoline Museum of Rome, Italy
Solo Exhibition
365D - Trecentosessantacinque giorni da Donna
Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman
365 Portraits of Italian women from the project 365D and book presentation.
Milan, Italy
Solo Exhibition
Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman
Minnesota, USA
Solo Exhibition
Twelve
A photographic exhibition in one of Milan’s most prestigious squares.
12 Portraits of women (6m x 3m - 19.7 x 9.8 feet) who have confronted and continue their fight against Obesity.
For the Non-Profit Organization "Insieme Amici Obesi".
Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy
Solo Exhibition
The Wavering Balance
Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition
The Wavering Balance
Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibition
The Wavering Balance
8 Images were exhibited in a show alongside a selection of 40 extraordinary creations, drawings and sketches from the Maestro Roberto Capucci "L’Abito: Moda Scultura"
Turjaska Palace, Slovenia
"The best impressive fashion images published in the first 3 years of B-Magazine". Piazza Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition
La Primavera. Italian Spring Festival
Yubido Inc. and Zoom Japan present a group exhibit of 4 photographers within the Spring Festival.
Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition
The Wavering Balance
Presentation photograph for the opening of the fondazione Roberto Capucci Museum in occasion of Pitti Immagine Uomo
Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibition
The Garden of Grace
In 2006 chosen as one of five photographers to realize a photographic project with the cell phone N90.
Nokia Gallery
Milan, Italy
Group Exhibition
The Garden of Grace
Brescia, Italy
Solo Exhibition
Tokyo Blues
Portraits of Tokyo
Rome, Italy
Solo Exhibition
Fash-On Party
Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition
Zoom International Photographic Exhibition | Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Zoom Photographic Art Magazine
Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition
Zoom International Photographic Exhibition | Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Zoom Photographic Art Magazine
Atami, Japan
Group Exhibition
Experimenti Kontemporanei
Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition
365 Photographic Portraits and Short Stories of Women
Silvana Editoriale
Gold Medals of Excellence for “Danae”
Super Circuit Art Book 2008
Two Images Published in the Art Book “La Primavera” in Occasion of the Italian Spring Festival | Japan
Distributed in Museums, Libraries and Art Galleries
Certificate of Accomplishment 2016
Honorable Mention Fine Art: Conceptual Category
"The Lion's Den" from the series "The Wavering Balance"
Women Filmmakers
Sticks and Stones Trilogy, a movie by Sienna Reid: The Words Spoken, The Words on the Body, The Marks on the Wall.
Director of Photography, Production Design, Assistant Director for chapter three: "The marks on the wall "
Award of Merit | Experimental
Sticks and Stones Trilogy, a movie by Sienna Reid: The Words Spoken, The Words on the Body, The Marks on the Wall.
Director of Photography, Production Design, Assistant Director for chapter three: "The marks on the wall "
Silver award 2016 | Sticks and Stones Trilogy, a movie by Sienna Reid: The Words Spoken, The Words on the Body, The Marks on the Wall.
Director of Photography, Production Design, Assistant Director for chapter three: "The marks on the wall "
"Art and Fashion" MiMA Photographic Workshop with photographers Sham Hinchey & Marzia Messina"
Verona, Italy
"Fashion Wanted" 2006 Edition
1st Prize in the competition for 6 images inspired by the Nereidi (fresh water nymphs) in collaboration with the Hair stylist Federico Faragalli
Milan, Italy
Invited to hold two seminars on fashion and advertising photography fro graduate students
Milan, Italy
1st prize Cono D'Oro” (Golden Cone) in the category "Print Advertising & Professional Magazines"
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Client: Procter & Gamble | Dash
1st Prize in the special award "New Talent"
6 Images inspired by Thai culture
Exhibit in the Next Look gallery.
Published in the Next Look art book 2004
Bologna, Italy
Al Jazeera
NYTimes
Huffington Post USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Korea
Upworthy
Daily Mail
Spiegel
Glamour | USA
Huffington Post Italy
Radio24 | Italian National Radio
Global Citizen
GirlTalkHQ
Life Framer
Lettera Donna | ELLE, Italy
Parents
Io Donna | Corriere della Sera, Italy
La Voce di New York
Rai 1| National TV
Rai 2 | National TV
Rai 3 | National TV
RAI News | National TV
TV 2000 | National TV
Radio Vaticana | National Radio
Radio 2 | National Radio
ANSA
ADNKRONOS
AISE
Il Secolo D’Italia
La Repubblica
Il Corriere della Sera
Il Tempo
Il Messaggero
Europa
Culture
Special interview for the international French television channel on three acclaimed foreign professionals working in Italy. Algerian writer Amara Lakhous, English photographer Sham Hinchey and German chef Heinz Beck.
National campaign for Italy’s leading Bank
Campaign for tourism in Baltimore
Advertising campaign
Women’s clothing collection and campaign
Advertising Campaign (Leading Daily Sports Newspaper)
Campaigns for D’Addario Strings and Accessories
Evans Drumheads – Promark Drumsticks – Woodwinds
Fund Raising Campaign
Advertising Campaign for Portuguese Cosmetics Company
Italian Democrats Successful National Political Campaign
Advertising campaign (Italy’s electricity distribution company)
Advertising Campaign
Stop Motion Film Clip Campaign for ENI NEVE
Women's Clothing Collection and Campaign
Jewelry Collection and Campaign
Advertising Campaigns and Calendars
Producer & DP for the social film campaign on theShoah Museum Foundation
Producer & DP for the social film campaign “Nuovo codice digitale”awareness on new digital technologies
Informative social campaign
DNA Winter Tour Campaign
Photographic campaign on Obesity awareness for “Insieme Amici Obesi”
Not-For-Profit
Producer & DP for the film campaign on Obesity awareness for “Insieme Amici Obesi”
Not-For-Profit
Advertising Campaign
Advertising Campaign (Film Distribution Company)
Women's clothing collection and campaign
Women’s swimwear collection and campaign
Advertising campaign (National Post Offices)
Advertising Campaign
Advertising Campaign Megane
“Photography frees us from the desire to possess, through photography we come close to ideas, people, places and objects that we are emotionally and aesthetically drawn to. Spending time and sharing energy allows us to maintain a part of the essence therefore becoming a part of us, we no longer feel the need to physically or mentally hold on”.
-Marzia and Sham
