Maiko is a Brazilian an artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. His artistic practice weaves analogue photography, hand-printing, and experimental darkroom techniques to explore themes of memory, transformation, and ritual.
Working with and without a camera, Maiko creates images that are slow, introspective, and materially driven. Through processes like luminograms and color chromogenic printing, he treats the darkroom as a space for both creation and contemplation — where image-making becomes an act of presence and resistance.
Influenced by diasporic histories, fashion portraiture, and the supernatural, his work moves between the personal and the mythical, often centering moments of choice, solitude, and emotional clarity. With a deep reverence for traditional methods, Maiko bends analogue materials toward new, unexpected forms — crafting visuals that linger between documentation and dream.