Margherita Chiarva was born in Milan, where she lives and works alternating with the island of Ibiza in Spain. Graduated from Central Saint Martins in London, she formed a collective based in Istanbul in 2014 and returned to her hometown where she specializes in silver salt printing research, working manually on film with the use of chemicals development and various analogous methods. Her photographic journey is based mainly on her investigation of manual techniques and a personal revelation through images.