Dale Rio is a visual artist whose lens-based and lensless photographic work explores
issues such as mortality and man’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing
film and historic photographic processes, Dale’s vision expands both outward – with
observation and documentation of the world around her – and inward with personal
reflection upon those observations. Dale’s work has been shown extensively in the
U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. Her images reside in private
collections and have been reproduced in countless publications. She has authored
one book and co-authored a second.

Dale received an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 1996 and was awarded
a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant the following year. Upon
her return to the States, Dale embarked upon a varied photographic career that has
included freelancing, serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, curating, and editing.
 

In 2018, Dale was the recipient of a Windgate Scholarship, which allowed her to
study the Daguerreotype process at Penland School of Craft. She has attended
residencies at Penland, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center.
 

Dale has been involved with numerous photo and art centers across the country,
and in 2015, she co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit
whose mission is the support of traditional photographic practices.  In 2020, she founded a travel and place-based publication called Point A to Point B, which features the work of photographers using film and historic processes.

Processes: B&W film/silver gelatin printing, color film/traditional chromogenic
printing, wet plate collodion, cyanotype, pinhole.

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