About the Artist

Patricia Pettitt

Patricia's photographic language relies strongly on her experience as a performer. For her personal projects, Patricia always works alone and stages detailed pictures in which she plays the protagonist's role. Her work is based on staged photography, and using this language, she creates fictional stories where she is both author and character. Her images evoke issues of femininity, intimacy, beauty, desire and melancholy.

Biography

Born in Portugal in 1980, Patricia began her career as a dancer, working with dance theatre companies around Europe and the UK, where she lived until 2015. Patricia's photography journey began in 2018 with various photography courses at Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem (IPCI), where she earned her Masters in Artistic Photography in October 2020. She is currently an educator at the IPCI. Patricia has been the recipient of numerous photography awards, including The Julie Margaret Cameron Award, Fine Art Photography Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, and Budapest International Foto Awards. Her work has also been featured, published and critiqued in various publications worldwide and exhibited both individually and collectively in Portugal, Spain and England.