Emily Schiffer Photography

Emily Schiffer is a photographer and mixed media artist interested in the intersection between art, community engagement, and social change.

She is a Co-founder and Creative Director of We, Women, the largest social impact photography project by women in the United States.

Awards include: an Audience Engagement Grant from the Open Society Foundation, an Emergency Fund Grant from the Magnum Foundation, the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture, winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category, first prize in the IPA Lucie Awards, the Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Photography. Emily has exhibited her photographs internationally at institutions including the Upper Austrian Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art Lansgalerie Linz (Austria); Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany) Espacio Fundacion Telefonica (Madrid), and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. Publications include: Aperture, Smithsonian Magazine, PDN, TIME, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Farnsworth Museum, US, The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, Foto Baryo, Philippines, The Center for Fine Art Photography, US, and numerous private collections.

In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot. In 2011 she co-created See Potential, a community engagement/ public art project that installs documentary images on abandoned buildings to illustrate economic development initiatives of community leaders on the South Side of Chicago. In 2014 she co-created Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project, a photographic road trip and travelling exhibition in which a 2T truck was converted into a mobile gallery and driven along the length of the Danube River through Central and Eastern Europe.

Emily holds a BA (cum laude) in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography, and the School of Visual Arts.

Emily lives in New York City and is available to work internationally.

All images are available as limited edition prints.

Emily Schiffer Photography

International award winning photographer Emily Schiffer's work focuses on the intersection between art, audience engagement, and social change.