About

Marie Eriel Hobro is a queer Visayan (Filipina) photographer specializing in documentary storytelling, photojournalism, and portraiture. She is also a filmmaker, writer, and high school photography teacher.

Marie was born in Maryland to immigrant Filipino parents and raised between Mililani and Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi. She received her Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism from Brooks Institute and attended the Eddie Adams XXIX Workshop as a student in the Fall of 2016. She is also a proud member of Diversify Photo and Authority Collective.

Marie is committed to using storytelling as a tool to uplift marginalized people and enact change. She is deeply passionate about working alongside the people of Hawaiʻi to dismantle colonial narratives, amplify important issues, preserve history, and reclaim stories from a community-driven perspective. She is particularly drawn to stories about queerness, gender diversity, cultural resistance, social inequity, collective action, and the intersectional ties between these topics.

When she’s not working, she can be found hyper fixating on music, comedy, queer history, Indigenous Filipino history, community organizing, rollerskating, plants, funky novelty items, or some sort of weird craft abomination. She is available for assignment on Oʻahu.