Lisa Elmaleh (she/her) is an analog photographer, artist, and humanitarian. Elmaleh resides in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in a primitive cabin. Her most recent body of work, Promised Land/Tierra Prometida, focuses on the crisis at the border of the United States and Mexico. Elmaleh’s images have been exhibited nationally and recognized by the Creator Labs Photo Fund (2023), the Arnold Newman Prize (2022), the Puffin Foundation (2022), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (2011), and the Tierney Foundation (2007), among others. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.