Sophia Chefalo
Sophia Chefalo is an artist and researcher who pushes photography 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. Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT (2024-2026), Chefalo has been recognized through prestigious awards, including being longlisted for the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, receiving the MIT Architecture Departmental Fellowship, and earning the Scholastic Art and Writing National Silver Medal for Photography Portfolio.
Articles of Sophia Chefalo
After Technical Images: Towards a Theory of Post-Technical Imaging
While Flusser’s concept of technical images remains foundational for understanding modern image-making, its limitations become evident when applied to emerging visual culture, which operates beyond immediate human sensory capabilities and constraints of previous apparatus. This essay proposes the concept of corporeal imaging as an alternative system that classifies imaging as relational to the body. This taxonomy enables the incorporation of contemporary imaging practices such as networked astronomical observations and generative AI systems that supersede traditional single-body relations. These developments necessitate new theoretical approaches for understanding image making beyond technical imaging.
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