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Final day @sydneycontemporary with @photoaccess_inc at Booth PS03! Thanks to @litiaroko and Alex of Photo Access, @artcollectormagazine for the Critic’s Choice feature, fellow artist and exhibitor @danicachappell and to everyone that stopped by to engage with my work. Always a treat to have work out in the world. by @soniamangiapane
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photo access is pleased to be returning to Sydney Contemporary for Photo Sydney 2026, presenting the works of Danica Chappell, Sonia Mangiapane, and unseen photographs from the personal archive of renowned architect Enrico Taglietti (1926–2019). 
 
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Sonia Mangiapane is a photomedia artist working with processes defined primarily by their interaction with light, as opposed to the exclusive use of the camera. Employing a range of camera-based and cameraless methods her practice takes the form of photographic prints, cameraless or hybrid works on paper, moving image works and other light-based interventions. Themes such as the tourist gaze, Nature and the underlying constructions of the photographic are the focus of her work.

Sonia’s approach is discursive, process-oriented and experimental. The colour darkroom, in particular, is a core site of her practice. It’s a space in which she makes, rather than takes a photograph; pushing the boundaries of the photographic by undertaking conceptual and technical approaches which diverge from the snapshot.
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Request a preview catalogue via our website or by emailing hello@photoaccess.org.au

Images:
Sonia Mangiapane, Selfie Spot, 2023, c-type photograph with darkroom intervention, 115 x 96.7 cm framed
Sonia Mangiapane, Swipe, 2021, c-type photograph with darkroom intervention, 97 x 82.8 cm framed
Sonia Mangiapane, It’s all downhill from here, 2023, c-type photograph with darkroom intervention, 115 x 93 cm framed by @soniamangiapane
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Excited to see some of my moving image work on at @bunjil_place this month as part of their Art After Dark program. Screening every day in August from 5-7pm. A huge thank you to curator Angela Barnett for the invitation! 

Featuring my short films / \ / Pendulum (with sound by @visionsofvisions) and NTRNL RFLCTN this project is particularly close to my heart as I grew up in the area, at a time when arts content was pretty scarce in these parts! So good to see more art in the south-eastern suburbs of Naarm/Melbourne. taken in Bunjil Place by @soniamangiapane
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ARTIST TALK: Sonia Mangiapane

📌 This Saturday 11 April, 1pm at photo access

Sonia Mangiapane is a photomedia artist working with processes defined primarily by their interaction with light, as opposed to the exclusive use of the camera. Employing a range of camera-based and cameraless methods her practice takes the form of photographic prints, cameraless or hybrid works on paper, moving image works and other light-based interventions. Themes such as the tourist gaze, Nature and the underlying constructions of the photographic are the focus of her work.

The colour darkroom is a core site of her practice. It’s a space in which she makes, rather than takes a photograph; pushing the boundaries of the photographic by undertaking conceptual and technical approaches which diverge from the snapshot.

Sonia was born and raised on unceded Bunurong country, lived in the Netherlands from 2012-2024 and is currently based in Naarm/Melbourne.

Images: Installation views of ‘Ambient, Aberrant (homecoming edition)’ by Sonia Mangiapane at photo access. taken in Photo Access by @soniamangiapane
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Before I left Amsterdam I sold one of my favourite pieces to my friend @gg_loop. Here it is hanging in @gg_loop’s Milan office, beautifully framed by @spotti_centro_legno. So wish I could see this in person… 🩸

Trophy (II), 2022
Analogue c-print (reversal contact print with darkroom intervention)
127 x 90 cm
Unique / sibling to Trophy (I) taken in Milano, Italia by @soniamangiapane
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7 months ago
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Happy to share a few installation shots from my solo exhibition “Ambient, Aberrant (homecoming edition)” at @photoaccess_inc until 11 April 2026. 

Big thanks to @melanieskyers for writing the beautiful catalogue text, @always_under_construction_hrm for metal bracket fabrication on Apocalypso, Dr. Kate Warren @anuartdesign for her inspiring opening speech, the stellar team at @photoaccess_inc and to everyone that made it to the opening. 

Always grateful for the opportunity to put work up on a wall! 

Photos courtesy of @photoaccess_inc taken in Photo Access by @soniamangiapane
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7 months ago
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These two beauties are available for sale through @foam_amsterdam First Editions for a limited time! 
Massive thanks to @lotteklosters @foameditions. 

🔵 #5, from the series 'Faux Topographies', 2019
🐙 #24, from the series 'Colour Studies', 2018

Inkjet print based on a luminogram
Framed in a white wooden frame with artglass
Frame size: 27.4 x 22.4 cm
Edition of 100+3AP
€95 each (including frame) taken in Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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Posted @withregram • @womenaltphotogroup ⭐New WAPG Interview ⭐ 

I am so excited to share with you this month's Women Alternative Photography Group interview with the wonderful @soniamangiapane

Sonia shares her vivid and striking images that explore technologies impact on how humans interact with the natural world. 

Head on over to the WAPG website to learn more about this incredible body of work.

Image Credit: top of the hill with minimal exertion, 2020, 90 x 76 cm, analogue c-print (photograph with darkroom intervention)

#wapginterviewseries #artistinterview #darkroominterventions #naturalworld #abstraction #filmisnotdead #experimentalphotography #alternativephotographycprocess by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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Posted @withregram • @womenaltphotogroup Have you read our November WAPG interview?

This month @soniamangiapane walks us through her darkroom interventions and how she manipulates the image using prisms. Learn more over on the Women Alternative Photography Group website.

#alternativephotographyprocesses 
#experimentalphotography 
#filmisnotdead 
#landscape by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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Posted @withregram • @womenaltphotogroup I am obsessed with @soniamangiapane striking images. The colour, the composition, everything it's so good. In this month's WAPG interview Sonia tells us how she creates these gorgeous prints. Here is a little snippet.

"When taking photos for Ambient, Aberrant I sometimes placed prisms or other optical modifiers in front of the lens during in-camera exposure; fragmenting, distorting and abstracting the view. I then subjected some images to a second iteration of mediation during print production, through ‘darkroom interventions’—in the colour darkroom during exposure of a negative image onto photosensitive paper I used coloured filters, transmissive objects, light sources or other light modifiers to disrupt the image in some way. This process creates a hybrid image produced partly in-camera and partly in the darkroom."

Check out Sonia's interview on the Women Alternative Photography Group website!

#artistinterview
#alternativephotographyprocesses 
#experimentalphotography 
#filmisnotdead 
#darkroominterventions 
#darkroomphotography by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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This work is part of First Contact @firstcontactprint, a group exhibition on until 30 November 2024 at @analoogstudioarnhem in collaboration with @wolf__books. Initiated by @aaltvandeglind. 

All works are photographs or images made using the contact print method. “The defining characteristic of a contact print is that the photographic result is made by exposing through the film original onto a light sensitive material pressed tightly to the film” [source: @nationalportraitgallery website]. However since I enjoy messing with most things photographic 🙃 my work was created from another photograph (rather than a negative). Swipe to the end for the original photograph this work was created from. 

039, 2019
analogue c-print (reversal contact print from photograph)
25 x 20 cm
unique

📷 pic #4 @aaltvandeglind taken in Arnhem, Netherlands by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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Constellation of studies, test prints, experiments exhibited in my studio during @pakhuiswilhelmina's biënnale 2024. 

These works-in-process offer a glimpse into the research and development in the darkroom which underpins my practice. (Perhaps) these usually unseen works reveal more about my process-based practice—and my attempts to expose the often invisible construction of all photographic images—than my larger “finished” artworks. 

25 seconds f8 #1, 2018-2024
analogue c-prints (photographs with darkroom intervention, luminograms, photographs), hybrid process c-prints (digital images with analogue print production)
25 x 20 cm (per print)
unique

All prints for sale!

#forsale #foodforthought #notetoself taken in Pakhuis Wilhelmina by @soniamangiapane
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2 years ago
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