Cassandra M. Zampini (born 1983) is a New York City based American photographer and digital artist.

Cassandra M. Zampini
Born1983
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBoston University
Known forPhotography
Digital art
Websitehttps://www.cassandrazampini.com/

Early life and education

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While at high school Zampini took portrait photographs of graduating seniors.[1]

Mostly self-taught in photography,[2] Zampini did study at Boson University when she took on a summer internship with New World Outlook she was sent to South America to write about and photograph on poverty and globalization.[1] Zampini realized the impact that photography could have and that internship has shaped her work.[3]

Career

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After the internship Zampini became the principal photographer for the parent company of New World Outlook where she managed campaign shoots.[1] Her next job was as a photojournalist for a local newspaper in Connecticut, while also undertaking freelance work for companies at events, doing corporate events, and photo shoots.[1]

Zampini's 2016 photographic essay The Commute appeared in the Atlantic magazine.[4]

In 2018, the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal prompted Zampini to pivot her focus towards digital media.[2] Also in 2018, her first show in New York City focused on her ongoing project, Data Mine.[5] In 2020, she received critical attention for her 25-minute film Media Warfare, which condensed clips of fake news and conspiracy theories.[6]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[7] the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography,[8] the Arnot Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester. She has exhibited her work at ArtYard in Frenchtown, as well as at various art galleries in Boston.[9][2] Zampini was part of A Yellow Rose Project; a 2020 artistic reflection on the 100 year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[8][9]

In 2022, Zampini was selected as a National Arts Club fellow, which provides an eighteen month residency.[10][8]

Personal life

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Zampini is based in New York City.[11][4] She has a brother who is an anthropologist, and is married.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Jacobs, L. (2010). Professional Commercial Photography: Techniques and Images from Master Digital Photographers. United States: Amherst Media.
  2. ^ a b c "Cassandra Zampini". ArtYard. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  3. ^ "Meet Cassandra Zampini – Boston Voyager Magazine". 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  4. ^ a b Epstein, Emily Anne; Taylor, Alan. "The Commute: A Photo Essay by Cassandra Zampini - The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com.
  5. ^ "Photography Exhibition - Cassandra Zampini, Data Mine". Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  6. ^ Angeleti, Gabriella. "As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US politics". theartnewspaper.com.
  7. ^ "#flex, 1 sec". mfah.org.
  8. ^ a b c "Artist Fellows - The National Arts Club". www.nationalartsclub.org. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  9. ^ a b "Cassandra Zampini". A Yellow Rose Project. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  10. ^ Liu, Jasmine (2022-01-18). "12 Artists Awarded Fellowships by National Arts Club". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  11. ^ "Bio/Contact". CASSANDRA ZAMPINI. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  12. ^ Heller, Eric James. Toward a Biography of Place at La Milpa North. University of California, Riverside, 2018.
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