Ellie Ivanova is a fine art photographer working in the cross-medium between the visual and the material. With a background in literature, her photographic interest is the experience of memory and the self-fashioning of identity, in both traditional and experimental formats. By making haptic photographs, in which the touch of the artist’s hand is included along with the objective capture of the lens, she draws attention to the manipulation of reality by memory and the deliberate construction of myths. She uses processes and conceptual approaches through which images continue to evolve after they have been captured and printed, blurring the edges between the factual and the fictitious.
Ellie is Bulgarian-born, has spent most of her life in the USA and holds an MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States in a series of galleries and museums and are part of the permanent collections of Human Rights Art at South Texas College and Fort Wayne Museum of Art, among others. Along with her own creative work, Ellie leads museum education and participatory socially engaged projects in a diversity of communities. She is currently at work developing creative thinking programs for professionals in Italy.
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To request information, discuss collaboration or an exhibition, please contact Ellie at ellie.j.ivanova@gmail.com.