About Me

Mariela Murdocco is a five-time Emmy-nominated multimedia journalist, photographer, videographer, producer, and visual storyteller with more than 20 years of experience in broadcast news, digital media, professional photography, and video production.

She began her photography career in New York City photographing celebrities, politicians, performing arts and community events for the media, besides children and adults in the entertainment industry.

Fully bilingual in English and Spanish, Mariela has built a career at the intersection of journalism, video, storytelling, and photography. Her experience spans television newsrooms for major media networks, social media, podcasts, branded content, and events throughout New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.

Mariela has also worked as a reporter, anchor, videographer and TV producer for Consumer Reports TV, Telemundo 47, NBC, News 12, The NY Daily News, The Jersey Journal, The Huffington Post, CNN, The Guardian, Fox News and Banda Oriental.  As a reporter and photographer for The Associated Press, she published her photos worldwide. She has interviewed, photographed, and produced  TV shows and segments on hundreds of celebrities, artists, politicians, personalities, community leaders, and professionals.

Her services go beyond photography. Mariela also films and edits video content for entrepreneurs, artists, and brands, creating engaging visual stories for social media, websites, and digital marketing. She has documented hundreds of family events, including weddings, quinceañeras, baptisms, communions, birthday parties, bar/bat mitzvahs and smash-cake sessions, as well as corporate events (NBC), behind-the-scenes film productions (Telemundo Network), educational panels, marketing events (Lexus), and conferences.

As a specialty, she has perfected the art of photographing newborns. Feeling a deep connection to the miracle of life, she has led the way in innovating both studio and natural-light techniques to achieve magical, artistic images of babies in hospitals, at home and in her studio.

Producing unique and timeless portraits has always been her passion. A perfectionist, she is a master of capturing a subject’s soul and personality. While she produces much of her work in studio settings and locations in the tri-state area using portable strobe lighting and studio equipment, she prefers natural light in natural surroundings.

She has traveled the world capturing architecture, landscape and the wonders of nature, with a fascination for wildlife and a special love of macrophotography.  

In 2002 she learnt darkroom techniques and started developing her own black-and-white prints in the bathroom of her Manhattan apartment, where she not only made her own prints but also fully developed rolls of films, achieving the whole chemical process without the use of a laboratory. 

Fully bilingual, Mariela, a native of Uruguay, is proud to offer  her services in both English and Spanish.