Sophia Chefalo

Sophia interrogates power, memory, and privacy as evidence for the unseen and spacetime in photographic images.

2026 Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology at Massachusetts Institue of Technology

2024 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honors in Fine Art: Photography at the University of the Arts London

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Invisible Decision

A woman’s boyfriend was not paying rent, so she started selling his belongings, one of them being a digital camera. Unknowingly, the camera came with about eight SD cards filled with images. I now own these strangers’ memories. They, in a way, become my own memories and substitutes for experiences I never had. The frame is meant to protect and display images, but with no information or context for the pictures, what am I actually preserving?

Walnut and Digital Print
43x50x19 cm

06/10/2024

Time_Spent010121-050721.xlsx

From the New Year until my birthday, I documented how I spent my days in 15-minute increments with the color denoting the activity in Excel Spreadsheets. If a photograph is a visual record of space and time, then this spreadsheet is akin to a scrapbook holding thousands of images that act as a record of my existence.

Digital C-Type in Aluminium Frame
101x76 cm

01/14/2024

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02:49

12/28/2023

The Sound of a Photograph

I converted utilitarian images from my camera roll into sounds using a spectrogram. Then, these sounds were altered using a children's voice disguiser to create new images.

03:41

12/28/2023

Untitled

Darkroom prints made with film from a caffenol experiment.

Silver Gelatin Print on Fiber Based Paper
20.3x25.4 cm

10/15/2022

The Atom of Your Labor

Documentation of a sculpture used as a pre-visualization sequence tool for a video piece about collapsing into yourself.

Clay, Paint and Lubricant
42x59.4 cm

11/22/2021