Marion Scemama is a French photographer and filmmaker. She and Wojnarowicz met in 1984 in New York while on an assignment for ICI, the two became close friends and went on to collaborate on multiple works. Often their projects would combine his imagery with her photographs or they would frequently pose for one another. When Rosa von Praunheim asked Wojnarowicz to be in the film Silence=Death, Scemama helped him to develop new material and repurpose footage from his earlier work A Fire in My Belly. Scemama travelled the length of the country with Wojnarowicz and assisted him in his studio throughout 1989.