Mara Sommer creates fantasies and fairy tales, deftly articulating emotional stories through her photography, while always maintaining a sense of reality that brings the viewer back to the everyday world. She describes her work as highly styled, but with minimal artiface. For Mara, each shot is a creative opportunity to portray a strong story – with the camera lens becoming the frame, the landscape the canvas, and the models the characters through which she can evoke moods that lend the clothing a more life-like quality.

Her work has appeared in fine art shows as well as group gallery shows in Germany, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.