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 

Email
The Sound of a Photograph

I converted everyday photos from my phone into audio using spectrograms, then processed these sounds through a children's voice disguiser before translating them back into images. This circular process of translation—image to sound to distorted sound to image—reveals how digital media can be endlessly transformed across sensory boundaries. The work questions the stability of documentation while exploring how meaning shifts and degrades through each conversion, with a toy designed for play introducing unexpected distortions into what began as utilitarian photography.

03:41 12/28/2023