Katrina Del Mar

Katrina del Mar is a New York-based art and commercial photographer, as well as an award winning film director. Her work has been described as "beautiful" exuding an "intimate chemistry" and also as "filth of the highest quality." Katrina herself has been described as a "major league cutie," "a wild woman," "the Lesbian Russ Meyer," and "apparently, the lesbian stepchild of Kenneth Anger." Katrina has been a photographer for over 20 years. As a freelance photographer, her client list includes Sony Music, Island Records, Polygram, V2 Records, London Records, Time Out New York, People Magazine, Alternative Press, Mademoiselle, and the NYPost. Katrina directs and produces independent films and music videos, commercials, short documentaries, reality television segments, and TV for the internet. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo gallery shows, museums, and club installations. She is a proficient in multimedia design, production and publishing. Katrina writes, directs and produces award winning independent films. Her first film, Gang Girls 2000, shot entirely on super 8mm film, received a 4 & a half star review in Film Threat Magazine, and received glowing reviews from the press, inviting comparisons to the legendary Kenneth Anger. The follow up, Surf Gang, about a gang of women surfers from Rockaway Beach in New York City, landed Katrina a prestigious Fellowship in Video from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Best Experimental Film Award from the Planet Out Short Movie Awards announced at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, and was screened at the Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC) in Bordeaux, France. Her latest film project, Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever , completes the Girl Gang Trilogy & was the recipient of the Accolade Award of Merit and has screened to sold out shows in NYC, London, Berlin, Indianapolis, Sydney, Auckland, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco.