Antonia Tricarico has been taking photos since 1997. In the past years, she has been working as a photo archivist for Lucian Perkins (Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post) and collaborated with Tolotta Records, Dischord Records, Kill Rock Stars, and Youth Action Research Group. Her work can be found in the private collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the Special Collections Division of the District of Columbia Public Library, the Punk and Go-Go music archive, and in the permanent exhibition of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, in the Special Collections of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, University of Maryland, and in the Collections of DC History Center in Washington, DC. Her first book Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essay from Washington, DC, and Beyond, 1997-2017 was published by Akashic Books in 2019. Her second book The Inner Ear of Don Zientara: Half Century of Recording In One of America's Most Innovative Studios, Through the Voices of Musicians will be published by Akashic Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared in Photo Review, Guitar World, Kerrang, All Music, Chicago Reader, RAZORCAKE, The Quietus, and Fretboard Journal.
She lives in Washington, DC.
