Sergio Purtell is a photographer born in Santiago, Chile. He arrived in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1972 as a 17-year-old exchange student. He earned a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in photography at Yale in 1982. After Yale he moved to New York and started a printing business, Black and White on White.
His book Love's Labour (Stanley/Barker, 2020) collects black and white photographs made in Europe in the summers from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. His book Moral Minority (Stanley/Barker, 2024) has 184 pages of photographs made in the United States between 1977 and the early 1990s. It shows fairs, parades and other public places.
