Marion Faymonville is a German-born artist based in San Francisco and Sonoma County, CA. She uses documentary and staged photography and is interested in eliminating the divide between the real and the imaginary. Her practice is rooted in the beautiful and terrifying natural world and informed by cultural identities within her multiracial immigrant family. Faymonville holds a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has participated in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York; Center for Photographic Art, CA; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, CA; and the Sanchez Art Center, CA; among others. Her work has been featured in Fisheye magazine, Lenscratch and AllAboutPhoto. It received honorable mentions at the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and the 2023 International Photography Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art. In 2023 she had her first solo exhibition, Black River, at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA.