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, where she expanded her practice into video, installation, and performance art. Rooted in the belief that creativity can transform both individuals and communities, Pacha’s work has long bridged the personal and the collective.
For the past 20 years, she has channeled this creative energy into Pacha Play, an urban streetwear label inspired by dance, movement, and festival culture. This spirit of embodied, expressive design continues to inform her current work: large-scale photographic installations using a distinctive “layered in-camera” technique. These immersive, dreamlike images explore the mystical and mysterious sides of humanity and nature.
Pacha works at the intersection of photography, public engagement, and social transformation. Her projects often take the form of temporary public artworks and community collaborations that highlight urgent issues such as immigration, Indigenous rights, climate change, and housing justice. In recent years, she has begun exploring more permanent forms—particularly architectural glass—while continuing to root her work in social connection and storytelling.
Based in New Mexico, Pacha is continually inspired by the region’s light, land, and layered histories, which infuse her work with a sense of wonder, reverence, and possibility.
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.