Sophie Carroll

Sophie Carroll is a photographer and UX designer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a graduate of Duke University (’23) with a BA(hons) in semiotics, where she studied the philosophy of different verbal and visual communication models and their applications to human computer interaction. Sophie studied Italian, Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish, and is fascinated by communication at a sociolinguistic level.

Sophie’s UX design experience includes creating date and time UX content guidelines at Autodesk, conducting internal UX audits, information architecture redesign, and user interviews for the Duke University UX team, and designing web/mobile sites and SEO for Turner Carroll Gallery and [CONTAINER] art museum. She is particularly passionate about localization and cross-cultural accessibility, as well as UX in music and arts spaces.

Sophie Carroll’s photography work explores how abstract depictions of familiar environments expose the semiotic process of meaning-making that a viewer subconsciously experiences when viewing a photograph with identifiable context. The disruption of the semiotic process creates psychological tension, and many of her minimal photographs explore patterns of shape and light which emerge as the viewer creates meaning of their own.

Sophie has also written anthropological photo essays which explore themes of juxtaposition across time and space, cross-cultural communication, and the intersection of linguistic and verbal communication in China and Italy.

Sophie Caroll’s work has been exhibited in the Albuquerque Museum, Turner Carroll Gallery, Brown Gallery, Washington DC Scholastic Awards, and Galatica Gallipoli, where she completed a Fulbright grant in 2024. She has also been featured in the popular online zines Minimal Monday and Mundaaang. When Sophie is not taking photographs, she can be found dancing, making music, hiking, traveling, and studying languages.