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    Cara Passarelli was born and raised in East Hampton Connecticut and has returned after her recent college graduation. She studied Visual Journalism at The Rochester Institute of Rochester after studying photography for three of her high school years and taking a summer course at The Maine Photographic Workshops. Narrowing her focus to Visual Journalism in college became a simple task as her love for depicting truth and reality in her photos grew. Along with documenting life around her, Cara developed a love for traveling. This began, perhaps years earlier, but was realized on a mission trip to Puerto Rico that Cara participated in during High School. She shot the island and it’s people refusing to pose or exploit anyone.
    Cara managed to take two photography trips abroad while at RIT, finding away to blend her love for documentary and travel photography. She studied art history in St. Petersburg, Russia where she concentrated on the contrast between old and new worlds in this revolutionary country and the lives and work spaces of the many artists with whom she studied. Cara also got a chance to fulfill some photo credits on a trip to Cuba where she found her knowledge of Russian history very insightful while exploring the still communist island. Here she captured a Cuba removed from the stories, prejudices, and misconceptions that her generation grew up with. This has always been a mission of Cara’s, to capture the truth in a way that is real to both the subject and observer. She tries to connect with her subjects so that she is not removed or distant because she does not find truth in exploiting the “exotic.”
     Cara is living and working in Connecticut and is photographing her life and those within it in a way to document her return home. She hopes to continue to travel and shoot, working for a purpose that she finds priceless in the world of photography. She strives to show the commonalties of human beings, the quiet moments that unite us all.