Antonia Tricarico has been taking photos since 1997.
She previously worked as a photo archivist for Lucian Perkins (Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post). She collaborated with Tolotta Records, Dischord Records, Kill Rock Stars, and Youth Action Research Group.
Her work can be found in private collections, in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and the permanent exhibit and archive of the Special Collections Division of the District of Columbia, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Punk and Go-Go music archive, in the Special Collections of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, University of Maryland, and 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: a half-century of recording through the voices of musicians, engineers, and producers from one of America’s most innovative studios was published by Akashic Books in 2023.
Her work has appeared in Photo Review, Guitar World, Kerrang, RAZORCAKE, Fretboard Journal, Exclaim!, Washington City Paper, All Music, New Noise Magazine, Capital Bop, and The Quietus. She has been showing her work nationally and internationally.
She received the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Juried Exhibition Grant in 2024 and the Artist Fellowship Grant in 2024.
