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 femininity 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 Brattleboro 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, the 2024 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Seeing Women, APG Portfolio 2024 & 2022, 2024 Critical Mass top 200, among others.
