Description
Learn the process of wet plate collodion with photographer and artist Rachel Portesi! Spend an afternoon in her studio in Vermont learning the process and possibly sitting for a portrait or creating a still life.
Rachel Portesi received a BA in Sociology and Photography from Marlboro College, VT. Her recent work examines the nuanced transitions in female identity related to motherhood, aging, and choice as well as the intersection of identity and femineity with the physical world. Portesi’s photographs have been exhibited at various venues in New England and in New York including, The Wadsworth Atheneum, The Griffin Museum, The Newport Art Museum, and Freight+Volume, and have been written about in Vogue, Forbes, Boston Globe, White Hot, and Art News among others. Rachel Portesi is exhibited in the Fresh 2024 Annual Photography Exhibition, at the Klompching Gallery. She was awarded the 2024 Rhonda Wilson Award.
She works and lives with her family in Saxtons River, Vermont.
