About Sofie Hecht

Sofie Hecht is a documentary photographer born in Brooklyn, New York and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work focuses on queer community, particularly collaborative portraiture, documenting drag performances, and returning home to photograph her own biological family. She graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 2018 with a degree in International Literary and Visual Studies (ILVS) and Spanish. While at Tufts, she was the Photo Editor of the Daily newspaper, worked as a Teaching Assistant for VII Academy co-founder Gary Knight, and worked as a staff photographer for the university. After college, she moved back to New York City to work as an intern at Aperture Foundation. Following this position, she continued working with the VII Academy and Foundation as an Assistant Program Coordinator, administering hundreds of scholarships to students for workshops all over the world. She was Assistant Producer at the Nature: Through Her Eyes festival in Perpignan, France celebrating women’s contributions to media about the natural world and was Student Coordinator at the 2019 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2019 where she began working for the non-profit youth group home Casa Q that supports queer youth without a safe home. She then became a paralegal focused on civil rights lawsuits against prison and jails in support of folks who were incarcerated. She continued this work at the ACLU of New Mexico doing civil rights litigation until mid-2022. She enrolled in the International Center of Photography’s Documentary and Visual Practice online program for their 2023 school year where she is currently working on a long term project documenting the effects of the nuclear industrial complex on New Mexican families. Sofie also continues to work on a long term documentary and portrait project The Queer Family Photobook about how queer people make alternative family units in Albuquerque.

She uses documentary photography and storytelling to be an active participant in community life and raise public awareness about critical issues, particularly those affecting queer communities.

She is available for freelance work for portrait, event, sports, documentary and artistic photography, as well as video projects!

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She can be contacted at sofiedh@gmail.com.