Lisa Elmaleh

Lisa Elmaleh (b. 1984, Miami, Florida) is an analog photographer, artist, and humanitarian. Elmaleh resides in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in a primitive cabin. Her most recent body of work, Promised Land/Tierra Prometida, focuses on the crisis at the border of the United States and Mexico, and since 2020, she has been immersed in the migrant justice community there. Elmaleh’s images have been exhibited nationally and recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation (2024), Creator Labs Photo Fund (2023), the Arnold Newman Prize (2022), the Puffin Foundation (2022), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (2011), and the Tierney Foundation (2007), among others. Her work has been featured by such publications as Harper’s Magazine, Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times, and National Geographic, and by CNN and NPR. Elmaleh’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Ogden Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas, among others. Her first monograph, Everglades (Zatara Press, 2016), documents the impact of climate change on the South Florida landscape.

Lisa won the 2022 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture with her series ‘Promised Land‘.