Edica Pacha is a Santa Fe-based fine art photographer and visual artist with over 20 years of creative practice. Her work spans portraiture, multiple exposure photography, large-scale photographic installation, and social art — all rooted in a belief that creativity can transform both individuals and communities.
Pacha's creative journey began with a deep love for film photography and countless hours in the darkroom. She went on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design and Prescott College, expanding her practice into video, installation, and performance art.
Her signature technique — in-camera multiple exposure — was born from a collaboration with fellow photographer Erin Preston, shooting double exposures on color film. What began as experimentation became a lifelong practice: layering images in a single frame to reveal what she calls "the in-between worlds." All images on this site are created entirely in-camera, with no post-production compositing.
For the past 20 years, she has also channeled her creative energy into Pacha Play, an urban streetwear label inspired by dance, movement, and festival culture. That spirit of embodied, expressive design continues to inform her photographic work.
Currently studying Integrative Psychology in Santa Fe, Pacha weaves her understanding of the psyche into her portrait practice — creating images that go beyond the surface to document something deeper.
I come from Celluloid. Years in the darkroom exploring light through grain. I would experiment with papers and styles of film.; primarily shooting medium format images on cameras of vintage delight (like the one below). There was always a quality of mystery that kept my exploration fresh and exciting. About 20 years ago, one of my great friends and photographers, Erin Preston and I started to explore Double exposure in camera on film. We worked with color. I later worked in Black and White. Some of the images worked. Some had to much going on. So began my love affair with multiple exposure in camera. For years, this is all I shot. Although I had gone through the digital revoltuion with photography, I still prefered film. Recently, I got the opportunity to dive deeper into the newer digital cameras, as well as the lightroom software (thanx to the magik of Anne Staveley). Inspiration and excitement, as well of a host of beautiful images, came to expose mystery and edge as a language to create from. All the images shared on this site, are created in camera, with Multiple exposure settings. This means, that i shoot one picture, and on the same image, another image is shot. I don't know how it will come out, as this is the play on the unknown. And yet, this unknown continues to reveal the hidden layers, of what i call the"in between worlds". The Atlas Altar.