Elliot Ross is a photographer born in Chicago in 1947. He lives in San Francisco and New York. He earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971.
Animals are the subject of many of his series. His books Animal (2010), Other Animals (2014) and Crows Ascending (2025) were published by Schilt Publishing in Amsterdam. In 2024, the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium, showed his solo exhibition Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals.
Crows Ascending shows crows taking off from the roofs around his apartment in San Francisco during the pandemic. The book has 20 duotone photographs. It is dedicated to his late brother Michael and to others who suffered from Covid-19.
His work is in collections including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Creative Photography.
