Sophia Chefalo


Sophia’s practice emerges from photography but deliberately pushes beyond its conventional limits, treating the medium as a launching point for unprecedented forms of image-making. She creates conceptual cameras that fracture temporal continuity, questioning what photography can become rather than what it has been. Working in photography’s “zone of relativity,” her approach combines historical techniques with critical ethnography to reveal how images both disclose and erase, demonstrating how meaning emerges from the tension between presence and absence in ways that fundamentally reimagine how visual experience might shape our perception of time and reality.
 

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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Chronolithograph

Chronolithograph subverts traditional photography by preserving its subject rather than capturing light reflections. The apparatus encases a found rock in conservation-grade Paraloid B-72, creating a chemical shell that simultaneously creates and conceals its subject. This intervention recognizes the rock as a natural photograph—geological time compressed into physical form. The work exposes photography’s fundamental paradox: all preservation acts are simultaneously acts of transformation, where the desire to overcome the ephemeral inevitably creates a new reality that both documents and constructs.

Stone, Paraloid B-72, Steel
100x65x120 cm
05/19/2025