Elliot Ross

Elliot Ross is a photographer whose work explores the intersections of nature, abstraction, and human perception. With a career spanning decades, his images have been exhibited internationally and are held in major collections, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi, Belgium).

Ross’s approach to photography often focuses on animals, capturing them in ways that transcend mere documentation. His acclaimed books, including Animal (2010), Other Animals (2014), and Crows Ascending (2024), published by Schilt Publishing, reflect his deep engagement with the visual and symbolic nature of the world around us.

His latest work, Crows Ascending, emerged from a period of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, transforming an unplanned photographic experiment into a meditation on movement, loss, and memory. The project is dedicated to those who suffered during the pandemic and to Ross’s late brother, Michael.

Ross’s work has been featured in Granta, fotoMAGAZIN, and Notting Hill Editions, where he collaborated on On Cats: An Anthology, with an introduction by Margaret Atwood. In 2024, his photography was the subject of the solo exhibition Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals at the Musée de la Photographie. (Website)