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Awards & Grants
2023 Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023
2022 New York Times Portfolio Review - Selected
2022 Pulitzer Center Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant Winner
2022 Kindling Fund Grant - Grantee
2022 Maine Art Commission Grant- Grantee
2022 American Photography 38 - Chosen winner - web archive.
2021 First place 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography
2021 First place Reviewers choice award, SDN portfolio review
2020 V Festival Ethnographic Cinema in Ecuador. Selected to participate in the migration and territory edition.
2018 Grant from the Maine Arts Commission, to complete the project Migration Experience
2014 Best Portrait by the Portland Press Herald photo contest
2014 The Last Call, A short video documentary nominated by the Portland Press Herald as best of class


Education & Mentorship
2024 Photo Editing with - Andrea Wise (Scholarship Awarded)

2023 Vital Impacts Mentorship -  Selected
2023 Foundry Workshop
2023 Photo Editing with Alana Celii
2021 Missouri Photo Workshop 73rd Edition
2021 Eddie Adams Workshop Class XXXIV
2021 Gallery 44 Summer Mentorship Program - Mentee
2021 BIPOC Mentorship Program - Mentee
2021 Image-based Strategies for Social Change - Fred Ritchin (Scholarship Awarded)
2021 Documentary Practice and Personal Project - Sarah Blesener & Brian Frank (Scholarship Awarded)
2020 Developing Personal Projects -Brian Frank
2020 Documentary photography and storytelling, Tamara Merino
2014 Documentary Studies at Salt Institute, Portland, Maine
2006 Introduction to Photography, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 Business and Economics, Buenos Aires, Argentina


EXHIBITS (Individual and collective)
"Until We Are Gone", Lianzhou Photo Festival, China. December 2024. (Collective)
“Belonging exhibit” Congress Square Park, Portland, Maine. July-November 2024. (Individual)
"I will See You Tomorrow, Thompson's Point, Portland, Maine. June-September 2024 (Individual)
"Until We Are Gone", Photoville, New York. June 2024.  (Collective)
"Until We Are Gone with Vital Impacts” Cascina Roma Fotografia, Milano, Italy. April - June 2024 (Collective)
"Until We Are Gone with Vital Impacts” Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi Italy. 2023 
(Collective)
“Belonging exhibit” Congress Square Park, Portland, Maine. 2023 (Individual)
“Belonging exhibit” Thompson's Point, Portland, Maine. 2022 (Individual)

"Until We Are GoneBridge Gallery, Massachusetts. Dec. 2021- Jan. 2022 (Collective)
"Until We Are Gone" Photoville, New York. 2021 (Collective)
"Carried From Home", Catholic Charities Maine, Lewiston, Maine. 2019 (Individual)
"Carried From Home", Immigration Welcome Center, Portland Maine (Individual)
"The Way Life Is - Maine Working Families and Communities", February 2019, UMVA Gallery, Maine. (Collective)
"Carried from Home", September 2018,City Hall, Portland, Maine 2019. (Individual)
 "Migration Experience" April 2018, UMVA Gallery, Portland, Maine. (Collective)
"(Almost) Black & White"  April 24-October 22 of 2018, Creative Portland, Maine. (Collective)
"Carried From Home" , Venn + Maker, June 2018, Portland, Maine. (Individual)
"Photos of the year by Portland Press Herald, January 2014 , Portland Maine Library  (Collective)
"Winnowed bare" Salt Institute, November 2014, Portland, Maine. (Collective)

Workshops, Selected Lectures, Interviews and Reviews

2024 A Photo Editor Interview
2024 South Portland High School - Climate actions starts in your backyard
2023-24 Pulitzer Center Education Program - Virtual Education to Falmouth Academy & others
2022 Interconnected Reporting the Climate Crisis with the Pulitzer Center - Invited
2022 Storytelling Workshop Belonging
2021 Photoville Lecture  
2020 Outdoor Retail
2019 Portfolio Reviewer at B&H
2019 B&H Optic, New York, View Here 
2019 B&H Podcast Interview, listen Here
2018 New Mainers Speaker Radio Show Part 1, listen Here
2018 New Mainers Speaker Radio Show Part 2, listen Here

Language
Bilingual in Spanish & English







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Sofia Aldinio is an Argentine documentary photographer and multimedia storyteller.
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