Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci is interested in working with photographers at different stages of their practice as they develop a deeper connection to their personal vision and experience. Her mentorship focuses on helping artists explore intimacy, closeness, and emotional depth in their work, whether photographing people, landscapes, still lives, their own lives, or the lives of others. She offers guidance in developing the work itself and also in editing and sequencing images, developing and conceptualizing a body of work, writing about the work, and shaping projects for books and exhibitions. Having published five books and exhibited widely, she is also happy to support mentees in preparing work for publication and exhibition, including editing, titling, captions, and defining their artistic voice. With over twenty-five years of experience photographing for magazines, she can also advise photographers interested in editorial practice and in bringing the themes of their personal work into assignments.
Bio
Elinor Carucci (b. 1971, Jerusalem) is an Israeli-American fine-art photographer of Jewish North African and Bukharian descent. She earned a degree in photography from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1995 and moved to New York City the same year. From 1993 to 2006, she also worked as a professional Middle Eastern dancer.
Carucci’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally. Her solo exhibitions have been held at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Gallery Fifty One, The Jewish Museum (NY), FOMU (Belgium), and Gagosian Gallery (London). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, and The Photographers' Gallery in London.
Her photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her editorial work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and W.
She has received the ICP Infinity Award (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), and a NYFA grant (2010).
Carucci has published five books: Closer (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a Dancer (SteidlMack, 2005), MOTHER (Prestel, 2013), Midlife (Monacelli Press/Phaidon, 2019), and The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Portrait of Justice (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2023).
She teaches in the graduate program in Photography at the School of Visual Arts and in the Art Department at Hunter College, and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.
Links to her work
- Website
- New York Magazine: A Joyful Testament of Middle Age
- The Photographic Journal: Elinor Carucci Midlife
- B&H: A Studio Visit with Elinor Carucci
- LensCulture: The Story Behind the “Cat Person” Photo Published by The New Yorker
- Strange Fire: Book Review “Midlife” by Elinor Carucci
- What Will You Remember?: Our Favorite Photo Books of 2019
- Wired: An Artist Takes an Unflinching Look at Her Own Hysterectomy
- Musée: Book Review, Midlife
Mentorship
If you are interested in working with "Name" or have any questions about our Mentorship Program, please reach out to: mentorships@laluzworkshops.com