Vicky Benitez; born in Uruguay, grew up in Paraguay, studied Graphic-Web Design and Photography in Paraguay and Argentina is now continuing her passion for photography and art in USA. Vicky works and continues to learn all aspects of photography at Ken Jones studio in Manhattan, while being a freelance commercial and fashion photographer. Her distinct eye for finding beauty in everything portrays in her pictures.

Vicky’s prior work ‘Paraguayan Dance in the Big Apple’ was exhibited in Queens Museum of Art (Summer of 2007).

Maia – is a series of pictures Vicky has painted with light. Maia is the Greek goddess of spring, from whom we derive the name of the month of May.

Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties which artists can effectively explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be considered as a medium for more powerful and more vivid artistic expression. In fact, many artists and crews make use of it creating quite impressive works of art.

In this series Maia, Vicky paints with the light over the subject to reflect the beauty and colors and portray the spring goddess Maia in an artistic way. Pictures in this series are taken with long exposures of 25 to 30 seconds, using hand painted light in a complete dark room.

Makeup by Yuli Duarte, Models Karina Mieres and Natali Duch