my Name: 

Mica

  

My way from good Selfies to Iconic Business Image.

About me

I studied Photo Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences and Image Theory in the AISTHESIS program (Elite Network Bavaria) with Prof. Michael F. Zimmermann. My focus lies on perception, image formation, and the question of why certain images remain.

As a graduate physiotherapist and osteopath, I work with body awareness and authentic self-representation beyond make-up and pose. For me, embodiment is not an addition to photography—it is part of seeing.

My work connects image theory, photography, and body-based practice. From this, image processes emerge in which presence, self-image, and visual clarity come together.

Languages: German · English · Italian · French

This experience forms the basis for works and formats that can also be applied by others to consciously develop visibility and visual language.

Aesthesis

Aesthesis is at the core of everything I do: perception and the creative transformation of what is perceived into an iconic image. It is about sensing, understanding, and shaping meaning through images not reproducing reality, but translating experience into form.

Photography became my medium because it allows this transformation to happen. I began photographing out of curiosity and the need to understand what I was seeing. That question never stopped; it only became more precise.

Creativity, curiosity, individual beauty, and the desire to see and show an essence beyond perfection are what drive my work. What drives everything I do is the will to live intensely: a life shaped by creativity, love, and connection with people, with nature, and with light.

I grew up shaped by movement and sound by a dancing mother and a musical, creative father, both grounded in a poetic way of thinking and making. My early years in Italy, especially in Tuscany, left a deep imprint on my heart and my way of seeing. The light, the warmth, the closeness to nature and life itself formed my sensitivity at a very young age. Living between Italy and Germany offered different perspectives, but it was Tuscany that taught me to recognize light and love as essential forces something that still runs through my work today.

In my early twenties, a simple operation went wrong and led to a near-death experience. This did not make me more cautious quite the opposite. I lost my fear of death, and it has never returned. The experience was deeply liberating. At the same time, it expanded my perception beyond what can be explained rationally and opened my awareness to further dimensions of existence. Alongside science and analysis, intuition entered my life with a new presence. Since then, my search for essence has grown deeper and more uncompromising in life and in images.

At the center of my work is self-imaging: how images are created, how they are read, and how they shape identity. I am interested in the difference between a perfect image and an iconic one. Perfection closes meaning. Iconic images remain open they stay, they resonate, they carry tension and depth.

My practice grows out of long experience with photography, art history, therapeutic and body-based work, and the study of perception. These fields inform how I see, how I work with people, and how I develop images.

I work with classical photography and black and white as a discipline of seeing reducing images to structure, light, and intention. At the same time, I explore the possibilities of AI as an extension of perception and imagination. It is a powerful tool for creating images without having to run everywhere by oneself, and it becomes meaningful when used consciously not as a shortcut, but as a way to sharpen questions and open new visual spaces.

Portraits, including business portraits, are one possible field where this thinking becomes visible but never as mere representation. They are part of a broader investigation into presence, self-image, and meaning.

Good photography is not about perfection.

It is about essence.

An iconic image is not loud it stays.

Photography is my medium.

Light is my work. 

Welcome to ICA Image.