Lindsay Ellary is a photographer and director currently working between New York and Los Angeles. Influenced by cinema, her images retain a narrative quality that is evident across her personal, fashion, and commercial bodies of work.
Her technical precision with lighting and color construct a characteristic contrast and saturation, creating worlds that feel lush, moving, and immediately familiar: a memory you wish you could remember. The images encourage the viewer to consider the internal world of the subjects in frame.
Her recent self-published books ‘Chin Up Baby, Smile’ and ‘Plain Sight’ delve into the opposing interests present in Lindsay’s work. ‘Chin Up’ allows the viewer to sit level with earnest portraits of young women, encouraging reflection upon the world of female subjects in imagery at large. ‘Plain Sight’ is a dark trip down a sci-fi rabbit hole and into the mind of AI, it emerges as a tactile and fantastical extension of the thematic exploration present in Lindsay’s wider body of work.
Her client list includes Nike, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Aritzia, Pure Beauty, The Face, W Mag, Dazed, SSENSE, Buffalo Zine, T Mag, Time.