Ellen Carey

Life Datesb. 1952

Since the 1990s, experimental photographer Ellen Carey has been making images that defy photographic conventions of depicting identifiable subjects. She has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. She also creates images without a camera. In January 2019, Carey, a professor at Hartford Art School at University of Hartford, was named one of the world’s 100 best female photographers by the England-based Royal Photographic Society.