Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American photographer. Her work considers myth, performance, memory and lineage. She was born in 1995. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her book We Will Return to You was published by Saint Lucy Books in 2025. It combines still lifes, portraits and recurring symbols, and draws on Jewish folklore, especially Yiddish stories, and on personal experience. She began the project in 2018 and developed it after she moved to a small beach town in Rhode Island in 2020. Her earlier book, Kavana, was published by Kris Graves Projects in 2020.
Her photographs and books are held in libraries and collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Center. In 2022 she won first prize at the Portraits Hellerau Photography Award. From 2022 to 2023 she was the Blanksteen Artist in Residence at the Yale Slifka Center. From September 2026 to February 2027, The Jewish Museum in New York shows her exhibition Not a Circle but a Spiral.
