Marcus DeSieno is a visual artist whose work interrogates institutions of power through the language and materiality of photography. His practice focuses on documenting the enduring legacies of American empire, surveillance, and how visual technology is used as a tool of oppression by the State. DeSieno often uses experimental and historic analog photographic processes to create conversations between power and history. He is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
DeSieno's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Aperture Foundation in New York, Paris Photo, The Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland, and various other galleries and museums. His work has also been featured in a variety of publications including The British Journal of Photography, The Boston Globe, FeatureShoot, GUP Magazine, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, National Geographic, PDN, Slate, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, and Wired. His first monograph, No Man’s Land: Views From a Surveillance State, was published by Daylight Books. Purchase the book here.