Elizabeth Ellsworth

Elizabeth Ellsworth is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY and Belfast, ME working in photography and printmaking. She hand-builds cameras with pinholes for lenses. Inside each one, sunlight passes through translucent paper suspended in the dark, casting the world outside as a lively, glowing image. She photographs this vibrancy with a digital camera, moving with the sun’s light as it shifts and dances across the paper’s surface. The pliable screen allows her to collaborate with the light reflected by landscapes, buildings, bodies, objects—offering them image-sensations of themselves that are more felt than seen, closer to dream, memory, or a passing whim than to a thing fully known.

This suits the aesthetic of the vibrant material world that Liz aims to convey through her work.

Elizabeth is Emeritus Professor of Media Studies, The New School, New York City, and a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild.