ML Kirchner is an award-winning, internationally recognized fine art photographer. Born and raised in New York City, the Swiss-American artist works across multiple long-form series simultaneously, using photography to explore impermanence, humor, and the quiet absurdities of contemporary life. Her work is guided by the belief that the subject dictates the style, and that style must always serve the story—resulting in images that are visually seductive, conceptually layered, and immediately recognizable as her own.

Kirchner’s artistic foundation began early, taking her first art classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at age eight and, at fourteen, becoming the youngest intern in the Met’s Costume Institute under Diana Vreeland. Her subsequent work in fashion—including experience in Paris and New York—continues to inform her attention to composition, materiality, and visual narrative. Trained as an economist at Columbia University with a minor in art history, she later shifted her focus fully to photography while living in Europe.

After years of working across Greece, Portugal, and the United States. Since the pandemic, Kirchner’s photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and are held in private collections throughout North America, Europe, and Central America. Alongside her photographic practice, she has collaborated on interdisciplinary design projects, including the development of the Zinnia lamp using a new light-bending technology.

In Nuts on Ice, Kirchner brings together wit and classical symbolism to reflect on time, fragility, and the fleeting nature of pleasure—offering a contemporary vanitas that invites both contemplation and delight. She is currently based in Antigua Guatemala while continuing to travel frequently.