Ellen Wallenstein is a photographer, book artist and retired professor of art, currently living in Sherman, Connecticut.. Since 2020, she has made daily cloth cyanotypes using gravestone rubbings, inherited jewelry, and other heirlooms as well as animal figures, flora and assorted ephemera. In her most recent work she is turning them into prayer flag,s which she sends to her circle of friends.
Photographically she has always worked on long-term documentary projects, visually responding to daily life experiences. .She exhibits her photographs and collages at the Carter Burden Gallery in New York City. A NYFA Photography fellow, her work was nominated for the Eisenstadt Award and the Santa Fe Prize. Her photographs, zines, and books are in various collections and have been exhibited in the United States and abroad.