About

Elisa Gierasch is a New York-based photographer whose work explores the hidden narratives that exist in the margins of everyday life. Growing up surrounded by art, books, and theater in a creative household where both parents were artists, her father an actor in Hollywood and her mother a writer in New York, Elisa initially followed her father's footsteps toward the stage.
From the age of 10, she immersed herself in acting, dancing, and voice training, while simultaneously discovering her passion for photography when she received her first 35mm Olympus camera at the age of 12. This dual pursuit of performance and image-making would become the foundation of her artistic vision.
"Through all of the performance, she never put down her camera," constantly documenting the world around her—from unconventional weddings and film stills to her own artistic explorations. Like her mentor Mary Ellen Mark, who believed that "the obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives"