Tania Franco Klein

Tania Franco Klein is a Mexican photographer based in Mexico City who started her photography praxis while gaining her BA Architecture in Mexico City, which took her to pursue her Master in Photography at the University of the Arts London.

Her work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life. Franco Klein's work has been reviewed and featured by international critique including ARTFORUM, CNN, L.A Times, I-D Magazine, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Aperture Foundation, The British Journal of Photography, and has been commissioned by clients like The New York Times, The New Yorker, FT Weekend, New York Magazine, Vogue and Dior. Her work has been exhibited widely both in solo and group shows across Europe, the USA, and Mexico, including Somerset House London, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and Aperture Gallery in NYC.

Her latest exhibition Proceed to The Route which showcased a wide selection of her latest two series was presented by ROSEGALLERY and received enthusiastic reviews both in her home city of Mexico (2019) and Los Angeles (2020). She was recently selected by W Mag as one of nine photographers to follow and has received the Sony World Photography Awards in two consecutive years, The Lensculture Exposure Awards, Lensculture Storytelling Awards, The Felix Schoeller Photo Award of Germany Nominee, FOAM Paul Huf Award nominee, and recently received the Photo London Artproof Schliemann Award as the best emerging artist during Photo London fair 2018. Her first publication Positive Disintegration (2019) was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award.

Her work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life.