About

Richard Dachtera is a fourth-generation New Yorker, raised two blocks from the ocean in Rockaway, Queens. His work has been shown at Praxis Gallery and Panopticon Gallery, and is developed in part through the Penumbra Foundation's Long Term Photo Book Program.

His photographs are concerned with dislocation: the way perception shifts under pressure, the moment a familiar place tips a few degrees and becomes something else.

Education

  • Penumbra Foundation: Long Term Photo Book Program2025
  • Chico Review2025
  • Critical Decisions: Perspectives on the Creative Process with Todd Hido2024
  • Stanley/Barker Winter Masterclass2024

Exhibitions

  • Praxis Gallery, St. Paul, MN (group)2025
  • Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA (group)2025

Online Exhibitions

  • Analog Forever Magazine (group)2024
  • Booooooom Photo Awards, Long List2024
  • LensCulture, Critics' Choice feature2025

Publications

  • This is what I am doing, self-published2020