Watermelons Are Not Strawberries

Sandra Bacchi is a Brazilian visual artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She blends documentary and conceptual photography with her cinematography background to tell her stories, weaving fiction into the truths to express more open-ended storytelling. Since 2019, Bacchi has been developing works with glass to create three-dimensional objects, integrating volume, texture, color, and density with the photograph’s two-dimensional aspect. Earning a degree in photography at Escola Panamericana de Artes (São Paulo, Brazil -1997), Sandra turned her focus to cinematography, working on short films, documentaries, and commercials, in São Paulo and New York. Between 2002 and 2012, Sandra was the executive producer and owner of the video production company Estação 8, based in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2012, Sandra moved to NYC with her family and returned to her photography roots at the International Center of Photography. Sandra’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in several contemporary photography magazines.