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SOPHIA DIMATTEO

analog + alternative process photography | camera design + construction | graphic design | 3D design + rendering | drawing | painting | printmaking

PHOTOGRAPHY

These photos were all taken in homemade cameras, ranging from cardboard box pinholes to various foamcore/cardboard/found-object 4x5 cameras. Most photos were shot on direct positive paper, and some on sheet film then printed by cyanotype or traditionally in a darkroom. I am fascinated by the combination of simplicity and precision in capturing light and forming images, and view the cameras themselves as part of my art just as much as the photos that come out of them.

PINHOLE
Andy | 3.5x3.5”, direct positive paper pinhole exposure, 3 min, 2021
Cole | 3.5x3.5”, direct positive paper pinhole exposure, 3 min, 2021
Pin-up Machine | 3.5x3.5”, direct positive paper pinhole exposure, 4 min, 2021
Walking the Dogulus Alternis- portrait of a life-size painting | 3.5x3.5”, direct positive paper pinhole exposure, 3 min, 2021

Crossroads Beast | 4x5”, direct positive paper pinhole exposure, 2024

Tuba Bird | 8x10”, silver gelatin print, 2023
Addison/He With Tree | 5x7”, silver gelatin print, 2023
Mama | 5x5”, silver gelatin print, 2023
4 x 5
Tabitha | 4x5”, direct positive paper (shot in cardboard camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Jenna | 4x5”, direct positive paper (shot in cardboard camera with magnifying glass lens), 2021
Ben | 4x5”, direct positive paper (shot in cardboard camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Aggy | 4x5”, direct positive paper (shot in cardboard camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Skull | Tea toned cyanotype (from film negative shot in cardboard 4x5 camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Old Time | 4x5”, direct positive paper photo (shot in cardboard camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Sleep With Us | 4x5”, Tea toned cyanotype (from film negative shot in frankenstein 4x5 camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
Audj | 4x5”, Cyanotype (from film negative shot in cardboard 4x5 camera with magnifying glass lens), 2022
CAMERAS
Foam core 4x5 camera, accepts 4x5 film holders. Features a ground glass and a magnetic lens cap/shutter. Like my first attempt in cardboard, a dollar store magnifying glass was used. The aperature is changeable by sliding cards with varying aperature diameters into a slot behind the lens, and the focus is controlled by sliding the inner and outer boxes closer together/farther apart.
2022 design: tape reinforced cardstock bellows, plywood lens board, and repurposed enlarger shutter. Lens is a double-convex magnifying glass.
Precision drilled pinhole built into a cardboard box, back accepts ground glass and film holders, shutter uses a spring and is made from piano pieces. 2023.
Frankenstein camera, an old folding Kodak I restored and built an adapted back to take 4x5 sheet film. 1920+2022.

DRAWINGS + PAINTINGS + PRINTS


Crouching Beast | 30” x 33”, acrylic painting on unstretched canvas mounted to board, 2023
Crossroads Beast | 35” x 38”, acrylic painting on unstretched canvas mounted to board, 2024. <br> based on the <em>Sorbis</em>  beast in GennaRose Nethercott's book <em> 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart</em>
Flying Beast | 64” x 40”, acrylic painting on unstretched canvas mounted to board, 2024. <br>  based on the <em>Spotted Lepidome</em>  beast in GennaRose Nethercott's book <em> 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart</em>
Accordion Player | Linocut print, 2021
Nina's Mouth | Acrylic painting, 2012
Comic Draft | Pencil, 2017
SummerStrawberryChickenSaladFallInLoveAgain | Pen and Colored Pencil, 2022

Page from a comic | Ink pen drawings, 2022
Dogulus Alternis | Woodcut print, 2023
Drawing exercises | Ink, pen, colored pencil, charcoal, 2016-2022
Somethingscape | 5.5” x 12”, Toned Cyanotype, 2023

DESIGN


2D designs for event posters, flyers, newsletters, labels, etc; 3D product designs for clients in line with individual brand and style guides. I work primarily in llustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino, and Vray, sometimes incorporating hand drawn or sculpted elements, and prepare designs for a variety of production processes. Get in touch for more examples of client work or if you have a design project for me!

GRAPHIC DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION
Show poster incorporating an original linocut print, 2023
Sample illustrations for an original deck of cards, personal project, 2021
Sample illustrations for an original deck of cards, personal project, 2021
Early design iteration for drink label, client work, 2021
3D PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING
An example of a product with a technical part drawing.
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Tap Handle - Mockup.
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Tap Handle - Full Mockup. Original design specs provided by the client, Hobbs Brewing Co., and modeled/rendered/mocked up by Sophia DiMatteo.
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ABOUT

Sophia DiMatteo | they/them | 818.324.9455 | sofiadimatteo@gmail.com | CV

hi I grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in the History of Art and Visual Culture in 2017, and now live in Vermont. I have a long background in drawing and work in many mediums, but over that last several years I've developed a focus on experimental alternative process photography and printing, constructing cameras, and collaborative installation/performance. I enjoy thinking through the technical processes of how objects around us come to be, which is why I'm drawn to camera building, printmaking, and design for production.

My work revolves around exploring our physical relationships to objects, time, and our built environments, and how these relationships shape and are shaped by our social relations. I use various forms of documentation and collection to investigate these themes, ranging from curating a museum collection from an non-capitalist alternate timeline to using photography as a means to document both the world around me as well as imagined realities. In an age of rampant false information and the rise of imagery created by Artificiall Intelligence, I am drawn to using analog processes and practical effects to play with the idea of the authenticity and truth of the photographic document. Photography is a powerful tool to represent our selves and communities not just as they actually are, but also to reject the trajectory of reality and instead fantastically visualize what a other realities could look like.

I also take freelance design projects and have worked as a designer at Green Mountain Tap Handles doing 3D CAD product design and rendering, specializing in design for manufacturing. I primarily work in llustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino, and Vray. I have a lot of experience creating and preparing artwork for various production processes including printing, 3D printing, casting, CNC cutting, laser engraving/cutting, and decal/label/magnet production.

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