Sofia Valiente is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Miami, FL.
Foreverglades
For decades after Western Expansion, South Florida was still a wilderness. Only once pioneers dredged canals and redirected the flow of Lake Okeechobee did this area become habitable. These once considered “useless” territories…
Ivy Ridge
Ivy Ridge is an experimental documentary project that uses collaboration and memory to create a psychological depiction of life inside therapeutic boarding schools. In an act of resistance, four former students from the Academy at Ivy Ridge…
Kahaytle
Over the past several months, I have had the opportunity to engage in an ongoing collaboration with the Miccosukee Tribe’s Archives Department. During this time, I have educated myself about the Miccosukee’s history of resistance, sovereignty, and their relationship to land. The Tribe’s rejection…
