Lisa Elmaleh (she/they) is a photographer, activist, and humanitarian. She specializes in large-format work in tintype, glass negative, and celluloid film. Her most recent body of work, Promised Land/Tierra Prometida, focuses on migration at the border of the United States and Mexico, and since 2020, she has been immersed in the migrant justice community there. Elmaleh’s images have been exhibited internationally. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Arnold Newman Prize, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation, among others. Her work has been published by Harper's Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, CNN, The New York Times, National Geographic, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, and NPR, among others. Elmaleh resides in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in a primitive cabin.