Czech-born Marie Tomanova is an internationally-renowned visual artist. The key themes in her photography are displacement, identity, gender, and memory. The new HBO film "World Between Us" documents Marie's move from a small town to the busy world of NYC photography.

Marie has had solo shows in New York City, Prague, Tokyo, and Paris; her work has been exhibited in Berlin for the European Photography 2020 Biennial, and at the Rencontres d’Arles as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021, which was selected to travel to the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen, China. Tomanova's first book Young American (Paradigm Publishing, 2019) focuses on individuality, identity, and belonging in the American social landscape. It features a foreword by acclaimed photographer Ryan McGinley and sold out shortly after its publication. Deftly entwining portraiture and landscape to recontextualize and expand the meaning of each, Marie published her second book New York New York (Hatje Cantz, 2021) with foreword by Kim Gordon. It Was Once My Universe, with foreword by Lucy Sante, was published by SuperLabo, Japan in fall 2022. It is a deeply personal project about her return home to the Czech Republic. Marie's most recent book, Kate For You, was published in 2025 and captures her longterm artist-muse relationship with young New Yorker, Kate.