Cecilia Sordi Campos

Growing up in the countryside in Brazil, Cecilia got hold of a camera for the first time at age nine, after winning a contest at primary school. She took photos of everything and everyone. Unfortunately many of the rolls of film she went through were never developed. She still thinks of those never seen photographs. Cecilia is now a Melbourne based photographic artist and has been living in Australia for the past 15 years. Her artistic and photographic practice are positioned in the field of socially-engaged art and expanded photography. Her projects place value on ‘narratives of the self’ as resources for creating effective visual vocabularies to represent the complex psychological experiences of being-ness, relationship dynamics, womanhood and the female body, migration and identity. The aim of the projects is the seeking of strategies in the communication of these experiences within a public discourse.

Cecilia has a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) with First Class Honours from RMIT University, and is about to embark on a Doctorate Degree also at RMIT University. Cecilia’s work has been shown in Arles as part of the OpenWalls Arles 2021 Awards, to which she was awarded Best Moving Image, at the PHMuseum Days 2021 in Bologna, Italy, and Head On Photo Festival in Australia, amongst others. Her first self-published book Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba has been awarded a Commendation at the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards in 2019, and won the Momento Pro Best Book Design at the 2019 CCP Salon. The project at large has also been awarded a Commendation at the PHMuseum Women’s Photographers Grant in 2019. Her work has been featured in Fisheye Magazine, GUP Magazine, Paper Journal Magazine, Der Greif, British Journal of Photography, and other publications.