ELLEN JACOB

Ellen Jacob is an award-winning artist/photographer whose practice is rooted in social justice. She is a recipient of a Ford Foundation grant and Creative Engagement Grant: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Her work is exhibited intentionally and throughout the United States, including the FIF International Festival of Photography in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and the Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, in Barcelona, Spain. Jacob's work has received extensive media coverage, including at the MSNBC, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, and Asahi Shimbun. In addition, the

New Republic published her photo essay Inhospitable. She is a Josephine Herrick teaching photographer and taught at San Francisco Art Institute.

Ellen Jacob is the founder of the Art Justice Cohort, a member of Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, and holds a BFA with honors from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.