Ruth Kaplan is a documentary photographer based in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Montreal in 1955. Her work looks at social behaviour in rituals, from communal bathing to spirituality. More recently, she has photographed migration at the Canadian-American border. She also teaches photography at OCAD University and Toronto Metropolitan University.
Her first book, Bathers (Damiani, 2017), follows people in hot springs, bathhouses and spas. She made the pictures on trips between 1991 and 2002.
Her book Crossing (Kehrer Verlag, 2026) is about Roxham Road, an irregular border crossing between New York State and Quebec. From 2018 to 2023, she followed asylum seekers from the Plattsburgh bus station to the Canadian border building.
