Emily Shur is a photographer based in Los Angeles. She was born in New York City and grew up in Houston.
She works in fine art, editorial and advertising. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic and Time.
Early in her career she won the Art Directors Club Young Guns competition.
Her first book, Super Extra Natural!, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2017. It shows photographs from her travels in Japan.
Her book Sunshine Terrace (Deadbeat Club, 2025) shows her own neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
