Ellen Wallenstein is a photographer, book artist and professor of art originally from New York City, currently living in Sherman, Connecticut.. She works on long-term documentary projects, visually responding to her daily life experiences. She also photographs daily, as meditation and habit. . 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.
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.
Recently retired from a long teaching career, in photography and the book arts, Ellen was an Adjunct Full Professor at Pratt Institute (2001- 2022) and a Professor at the School of Visual Arts (1986-2022) in New York City,
Wallenstein wrote photography book reviews and articles for online and printed publications, and keeps an occasional blog.