Biography

Artist Biography



Richella Simard is a photographer and an avid traveler. She photographs portraits and landscapes taking inspiration from well-known photographers, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky and Tina Barney. Her past series uses photographic means to illustrate the diversity and unity between people and culture.

Richella studied at Maine College of Art and the New Hampshire Institute of Art where she received her BFA in 2007. Her work has been published in the Photographers Forum, Best of College Photography Annual in 2007, receiving an honorable mention. Her work has also appeared in NHIA publications. Richella’s work is in the private collections of NHIA, and private collector, John Teti. Her work is exhibited yearly in the Alumni, Faculty, and Minumental Exhibitions at NHIA.

Richella has taught at NHIA in the Continuing Education Department from the Fall of 2007-2010 and has been employed as a full-time art teacher at Manchester School District teaching both Middle School and High School, currently teaching High School at Manchester West High School. She has also held jobs teaching photography at Manchester School of Technology.

In the past, Richella has spent her vacation time traveling and photographing within the United States. She uses a medium format camera and a view camera with 4x5 color film to create her images. Her compositions convey the relationship between the natural and contrived environment always infused by the presence of humanity. Richella has moved on the explore many ways photography can be portrayed. She has worked with the alternative process known as Anthotype and currently is working on still lifes that all relate to food and our culture today.

        June 2013, Richella enrolled in the Masters of Fine Arts program at NHIA with the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH. She has currently finished her last residency and is working independently on developing her practice and next steps within her art making. She is actively entering into galleries, call for entries, and other opportunities. She hopes to be an artist in residence over the next year and continue on her teacher career and develop herself as an exhibiting and practicing artist in the state of New Hampshire.




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