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Marco Manray, artist and photographer in virtual worlds, documents the developments of Second Life since the beginning of 2005. He realizes wide reportage about the main events, people, arts, and everyday life in Second Life, witness of the birth of the metaverse.
Author of the book "IO, REPORTER IN SECOND LIFE"
Shake Edizioni, Milano 2007.

exibits
- "Shooting Pixels" @ Galleria Overfoto, Napoli, dec 2007 - feb 2008
- “NetSpace: viaggio nell’arte della Rete” @ MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo Roma, from 17 oct to 18 nov
- “Second Lifers”, on line - Carte Blanche, the artists space of ecrans.fr sept 2006.

Before becoming Marco Manray, he yet was a net reporter since 2003, travelling in the web for the project Internet Landscape and in war games with the artwork ARENAE, a b/w photoreportage from the wars on line, entering in the multiuser war game as an "embedded" photographer.
As a free lance he published his photographs on international magazine and newspaper such as Liberation ("Marco est notre envoyé spécial sur Second Life"), The Avastar (SL news magazine), El Pais, il Sole 24 ore, Elle, Numéro beauté (italy), Casamica Corriere della Sera, Repubblica (italy). His artwork, the series of portraits

Complete bio and news --> Internet Landscape

Second Life is a 3D world completly constructed by his residents. We are constructing a new world, we know every thing about how it works bud we don't know what the result will be. That's the reason why I take photographs in the Metaverse, to undestand how this all started.

"I am wondering if my First Second Life
is becoming my second real life"
contact: marcomanray@hotmail.it