About hella

Hello!

Hella D. Marosi is an image-maker and process-led artist from Hungary, currently based in London. Working primarily with analogue and alternative photographic techniques, she creates images that are grounded in feeling as much as in form. Her practice explores emotions, human experience, womanhood, and trauma, often drawing directly from personal memories and lived experiences.

Writing is an essential part of her creative process. Many of her projects begin with poetry that reflects her internal landscape, which she then translates into visual form through photography. This dialogue between text and image allows her to create work that feels both honest and instinctive.

She is particularly drawn to tactile, hands-on processes such as cyanotypes and pigment-based printing. Through direct engagement with materials, she explores the transformative potential of making - shaping, touching, and exposing each piece as a way of turning difficult experiences into something quietly beautiful.

Exhibition:

2025, Beyond The Frame, London Gallery West, London, UK

2025, Embodied Self, AMP Gallery, London, UK


- Why create?

Black and white

If I had to describe how I feel
Using images - not just the ones I picture in my head -
If I had to use images live through my past
To live through those abandoned parts within me
In this lifetime but in different presents
The only connection in between is me
The way I see the world in black and white
There’s no transition
There are two ends which are opposites
There’s only black and white.
I am staring at myself in the mirror
Looking at all those stricken parts of me looking closely at how the time has changed me
My way of looking at things
My way of looking at changes
Like flower budding
It ends like wilting
The former life fades away
Just like me
How things and my past chapter ended in me.
I am starring at the last petal
Is life just all about the alteration
Or the purpose would be to achieve the full bloom To create the final piece of the image.
If I close my eyes
And open another one to my soul.
I Wish to see more
More,
More than just black and white.