Spanish photographer & director based in London, blending documentary, fine art and fashion to tell stories of real life through emotional textures, portraits and landscapes. Their work is equally raw and soft, deeply connected and fascinated with intimacy, identity and the sublime.

Artist in Residence at ICA 2026

SELECTED CLIENTS & EDITORIALS:
Apple, Warner Bross Music, Oscar Murillo x Dior, Christina Aguilera, WDM Entertainment, Luna del Pinal, Jawara Alleyne, Daniel del Valle, Lolo&Sosaku, Novembre Global, PORT Magazine, Somesuch Editions, It’s Nice That, Dazed, The Face, The Financial Times, Metal Magazine, BBC, Vogue Italia, Schön! , WÜL Magazine.

SELECTED PRESS

DAZED100 2025

Maite De Orbe’s photography explores ritual, sensuality and sacred spaces (Dazed)
Sublime Speed (Metal Magazine)
The Infamous Spaghetti Sisters are acrobatic drag queens who split apples with their bare hands (The Face Magazine)
Interview with Georgina Vardy (Basta! Magazine)
Notes on Entropy and Surrender by Clara Dublanc

The photography of Maite de Orbe is an endless source of warmth and fun (It’s Nice That)

EXHIBITIONS

A moment opposite to blindness – CCESD, Santo Domingo (2025)
when the sun bursts / when will the sun die? – Minor Attractions with miłość gallery, London (2025)
Narrativas alternativas: resonancias cuir – Centro Cultural de España Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2025)
A moment opposite to blindness – miłość gallery, London (2025)
i’m so gay for you – miłość gallery, London (2025)
Purity and danger – Guts Projects, Guts Gallery, London (2024)
Nails, fights, splits, t*its – Dalston Superstore, London (2024)
Sapore di Mare – Mare Karina, Venice (2024)
A Night of Angels – The Horse Hospital, London (2024)
Lolo&Sosaku - Liceu Barcelona, Barcelona (2023)
Pla(T)form - Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland (2023)

Open Studios - Barbican Centre, London (2023)

Toughness & Tenderness - Bermondsey Project Space, London (2023)

Waiting with {Sonic Support} - Frieze Art Fair, London (2022)

Re:Repair - Barbican Centre, London (2022)

Age of Many Posts - Barbican Centre, London (2022)
Spaces, an open intimacy - Art Noble Gallery, Milan (2022)

3 Under 30 - Photo St.Germain, Paris (2021)
Shivers - Goldsmiths University, London (2021)
Three Men Make a Tiger, UAL, London (2020)
Adrift, Safehouse 1, London (2020)
Environ, Copeland Gallery, London (2019)

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Artist in Residence at Present Tense (2025)
Tagli, Stromboli, Italy (2022)
Kawaii Agency, Online (2021)
Young Visual Arts Group, Barbican Centre, London (2021-23)
3 under 30 - Daniel Bleu Gallery, Munich (2020)
Metro Imaging Mentorship, London (2020)

BOOKS

Crush (2025)

The Infamous Spaghetti Sisters (2024)
Aesthetic Structures, designed and photo edited for Oscar Murillo (2024)
Frequencies, coordinated and photo edited for Oscar Murillo (2024)
Feet in Madrid, head in London, published by Dossier Industries (2021)

FESTIVALS & TALKS

A moment opposite to blindness, in conversation with Hannah Geddes (2025)
The Infamous Spaghetti Sisters launch at Reference Poin (2024)
Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2024)
Graduate Outcomes, London College of Communication, UAL (2022)
Utopia Markets, Barcelona (2021)
Photo St. Germain - Galerie Meyer (2021)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (2019)
Shivers, Goldsmiths University (2021)
Interview with Family Portrait Magazine, Three men make a tiger, UAL (2020)
Interview with Dateagleart, Three men make a tiger, UAL (2020)