Sophia Cutino (b. 2002) is a photographer based in Oakland, CA.
Contact. sophiacutino@gmail.com @sophiabcutino
Education / Experience
BA in Culture and Media from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School ('23)
MJ in Multimedia Journalism from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism ('26)
2026 - Eddie Adams Workshop Attendee
2026 - Tacet Eye Workshop Attendee
Awards
2026 - Dorothea Lange Fellowship
2025 - Jim Marshall Fellowship
Publications
Sinister Wisdom
2027 - 2027 Calendar - print
UC Berkeley News
2026 - "a Berkeley ROTC cadet [...] rises toward service and leadership" - online
Berkeleyside
2026 - "How UC Berkeley students train to lead the nation’s military" - online
Sunstroke Press
2025 - "Diary of a Wet Bird" - solo photo book - print
Heated Magazine
2026 - Mostly Cloudy Cover image - online and print
Realeyes Magazine
2026 - "Golden Bears Battalion: UC Berkeley's Army ROTC" - print
2025 - "Our Lavender Lives: The joy and Intimacy in SF's Lesbian Bars" - print
SF Gate
2024 - "Inside a 6-story SOMA warehouse full of the skeleton's of SF's past" - online
Oakland North
2024 - "Will budget cuts ruin Oakland's chance to again be a major film setting?" - online
The Luna Collective
2023 - "Elona in Italy" - June Film Gallery - online
2023 - "Spanish Women on Corpus Christi" - July Film Gallery - online
Sunstroke Magazine
2023 - "The World Loves A Dead Women" photo series for Issue 7. Glory and Gore - print
2022- Whatever We Want Collective for Vol. 6 Super Crush - print
2021 - "1974 Yearbook" for Vol. 4 Space Oddity - print
2020 - Pure Nowhere's Heaven on Earth article and photo series - online
2020 - "Climate Change Protest" for Vol. 3 Passionfruit - print
2020 - Paris Love and Travel Diary - online
2019 - "The Buttertones: Reminiscing" article and photo series
2019 - Camp Flognaw 2019 - online
Fuzz Magazine
2023 - I Put Cinnamon in my Coffee to Help Remember my Mother - online
The New Screen Fest - New York, New York
2023 - "A Body of My Own"
Millenium Film Workshop - New York, New York
2023 - 720 Webshare Name: This is my Documentary
All My Friends Zine
- "Nature's Mistress" with Muriel Rowley - print
First Kiss Zine
- "Olivia Angel" + "Julianna" - print Vol. 2
- Lolita Jade Mini Purse Collection and Owner Interview - online
Melted Magazine
- "A Cacophony of Adolescence in Suburbia" article and photo series - online
- Surf Curse in Los Angeles - online
Our Era Mag
- Ella Fields Feature - online and print
- "California Style" - photo series and interviews - online
Sincerely Scatterbrained
- "What's On the Ground in LA in June" - online
Exhibitions
"Down There: Lesbian Love in Mississippi" at North Gate Hall at UC Berkeley (May 2026 - Present)
"Down There: Lesbian Love in Mississippi" duo exhibition with Aidan Jung at Xochi Cafe in Oakland, CA (July - August 2026)
Film and Friends group show in Los Angeles, CA (July 2024)
Frame 1A Gallery - Slap it Up Group Exhibition in Oakland, CA (August 2026)
Features
2025 - "These dreamy photos document one woman’s bicoastal coming of age"
2025 - "Q&A: A Candid Conversation about Sophia Cutino’s Enigmatic Debut Photobook,
Diaries of a Wet Bird"
2025 - "Sophia Cutino – Diaries of a Wet Bird"
Photo Editing
TBW - California Anonymous - Ken Light
Heyday - Soul City - Ken Light
North of Ordinary - A film by Sybil Patten
