cardelucci (b. 1988) is a photographer whose black-and-white images hold space for stillness, exploring how fleeting moments accumulate into memory.,Her work moves between seascapes, wild horses, and intimate portraits, conveying a close connection to her subjects.She pairs analog platinum prints with blockchain-authenticated digital originals.
Born in Newport Beach, California, in 1988, cardelucci holds a BFA from Chapman University, graduating cum laude.,Her ongoing series Plates traces life's impermanence through platinum prints hand-coated in a nineteenth-century process, paired with blockchain-authenticated digital originals.,In 2021 she deployed a single Ethereum smart contract, titled CARDELUCCI, to hold every work in the series under one record of authorship, beginning with Plate 1, made after her return to Southern California.,Between 2016 and 2019 she traveled through public lands across the American West photographing wild mustangs, a search that began after the loss of her own horse. cardelucci has said of the animals: “The wind knots in their manes almost tell their tale. Tangled, yet wild and beautiful.” The resulting series, Wild Mustangs, pairs twenty images released as 1/1 NFT editions with handmade platinum prints, with proceeds from sales supporting the wild-horse sanctuary Return to Freedom. Mustang and Bird, a photograph of a stallion with a bird perched on its back, was acquired by the photographer Justin Aversano.She later photographed mustangs living in private sanctuaries for Untamed, examining the tension between freedom and confinement.
cardelucci's photographs have been exhibited at the Center for Photographic Art, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the New Museum Los Gatos, as well as at Point Reyes National Seashore, W1Curates in London, SCOPE Art Show, and a Miami Art Week exhibition presented by TIME magazine and National Geographic.,Her work has been featured by MoMA and SFMOMA on their digital platforms, profiled by Forbes for her entrepreneurial approach to the arts, and included in Snap Collective's Hug 100 Artists to Watch.,,Her digital photographs are also held in Monolith Gallery, a private collection of tokenized art.,In Plate 3, Wildfire Sky, smoke from a nearby wildfire fills the sky and obscures the sun.
