Broken #2, chromogenic print - Limited Edition 1 of 6 (limited edition of 20 x 24 prints also available) Photograph

After attending college and art school, Ilisa Katz Rissman began a decade-long career as a commercial photographer, in addition to pursuing personal projects. Her work quickly began appearing in a variety of national publications including, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Interview, Saveur, Town and Country and Metropolis. Ilisa published two books, one titled Chairmania in which she photographed the miniature chair collection belonging to the iconic designer George Beylarian, and she was the featured artist In Photo District News: Ilisa Katz’s Simple Vision. For the past several years Ilisa has dedicated herself to working on concurrent long term fine art projects and commissioned portraits -- choosing large format analog cameras to produce detailed, evocative images. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of a number of awards from jurors including James Rondeau (The Art Institute of Chicago), Stephen Perloff (The Photo Review), Joseph Carroll (Carroll and Sons), Julia Dolan (The Photographic Center Northwest) and Jennifer Blessing (The Guggenheim Museum Of Art). Ilisa recently won the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for People and Culture, and three of her photographs were exhibited at the 2016 Berlin Foto Biennale. Her work has been posted and/or reviewed in The New Yorker, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Landscape Stories, Fraction and Slate and she is a BRIC Arts Media Fellow. Ilisa lives in Brooklyn with her three children.