Maria Mann is an American photojournalism consultant and public speaker based in Portugal. She is a motivational photo coach and mentor.

She is active in photojournalism education, curating exhibits for institutions and conducting workshops and consulting.

She worked for European Pressphoto Agency as senior managing editor and director of international relations from 2007 to 2019. Previously, she was director of global current events at Corbis Sygma, Paris; director of photography for Agence France-Presse for the Americas and international photo editor-in-chief in Paris.

Maria was the director of the IAPA/Knight Foundation Workshops for Advanced Photojournalism, conducting workshops in Latin America. She has taught in Lithuania, the U.K., World Press in Turkey, U.S. Pentagon Military Workshops and China.

She also was the editor of a two-year project on Ukraine, exhibited at the EU in Brussels.