Sophia Chefalo

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Profile

Sophia Chefalo’s (she/they) 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.

Her work has recently been exhibited at the Horniman Museum (London, UK) and galleries across London (UK), including Southwark Park Galleries, Espacio Gallery, Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, Camberwell Space Gallery, and Copeland Gallery. In 2024, Sophia graduated from the University of the Arts London with a Bachelor of Arts, earning First-Class Honors in Fine Art: Photography.

[### Eliot Z. Felde and Sophia Chefalo | Dust Ingot

February 13–20](https://act.mit.edu/event/eliot-z-felde-and-sophia-chefalo-dust-ingot/)

[### Vinzenz Aubry and Sophia Chefalo Published in Flusser Studies 40

PublicationResearch](https://act.mit.edu/2025/12/vinzenz-aubry-and-sophia-chefalo-published-in-flusser-studies-40/)

[### Make, Shift

May 5–19](https://act.mit.edu/event/make-shift/)