about

Virginia born and New Jersey raised, Chasi began traveling alone at age seven to spend summers and holidays with her father in San Juan, Puerto Rico while spending the rest of the year in Princeton, New Jersey with her mother.  This early solo travel and dual upbringing may have planted the seeds for Chasi's need to see the world, to experience other cultures, and her desire for adventure.  It certainly was the foundation for the things she most loves to photograph - from dancers, to travel, to abandoned buildings, and above all things, people.

 

Chasi's photographs have been published in the New York Times, WNYC, Time Out New York, El Diario, The Hollywood Reporter, Brownstoner and on Yahoo! in addition to a number of group show gallery exhibitions.  Additional clients include: Lincoln Center, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, Three, Wolfson Children's Hospital, HBO, YMCA of Greater NY, NYU, Goya, Latino Justice, Creative Communications Consultants, Little Kids Rock, Siti Company, Women's Project, Harmony for Peace Foundation, Little Sisters of the Assumption, Dig Communications, Product of the Year, and Salseek.

 

Exhibitions & Awards

 

2012 "Feast Your Eyes," New York Photo Festival.

2011 First Place, People & Lifestyle, American Photographic Artists (APA) NY Professional Photo Competition.

2011 Scholarship recipient from the American Friends of Russian Folklore for documentary work.

2011 NPPA Scholarship recipient for The Kalish | Visual Editing Workshop.
2011 Invited to document Afro-Cuban folkloric dance and music in Cuba.

2011 Juror for the 31st Annual Juried Photography Show, Long Island Arts Council at Freeport. 

2010 Animal Magnetism. Vermont Photo Workplace. VT.

2009 Tea Garden. Salt Institute for Documentary Photography. ME.

2009 Far From Home. Vermont Photo Workplace. VT.

2007 Almost Perfect.  Lightleaks Magazine, Juried competition.

 

 

photo by jayne wexler.