Lisa Elmaleh

Lisa Elmaleh is an American visual artist, educator, and documentarian based in Hampshire County, West Virginia. She specializes in large-format work in tintype, glass negative, and celluloid film. Since 2007, she has been traveling across the US and Mexico documenting landscapes, life, and culture in her truck outfitted with a bed, and sometimes with a portable darkroom.  Elmaleh is a West Virginia based photographer and educator. She has been awarded the Arnold Newman Prize, the Aaron Siskind Foundation IPF Grant, the Creator Labs Photo Fund, and the Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in the solo show,  Promised Land / Tierra Prometida, a project of her work documenting the US-Mexico border at the Tremaine Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut. Elmaleh’s work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and The Oxford American, among others.

 

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