Meet Ellen

From the bustling streets of major cities to intimate portraits, Los Angeles-based artist Ellen Friedlander offers a rich tapestry of perspectives. Her artistic practice employs a variety of in-camera and post-processing techniques to reveal a style that is bold, complex, and fueled by a fascination with life’s imperfections and fleeting moments.

After receiving a Master of Arts in Mass Communications, she spent more than a decade raising her family in Hong Kong, a city that deeply influenced her street photography and established her professional technical photography repertoire. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries across the United States and Internationally, most notably showing with L’étrangère Gallery in London, “LA Sees Itself” a curated exhibition by Carl Berg at Biola University, and most recently closed her 2025 solo exhibition at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH).  Friedlander has also had features in Lenscratch, The Candid Frame podcast – Episode #499, and LA Weekly’s “Meet an Artist Monday.”

In addition to her personal work, Friedlander is a Kipaipai fellow as well as Co-Director of Pasadena Photography Arts, which promotes diverse photography projects by established and emerging photographers worldwide through Open Show and FORUM events. Friedlander stays connected to the broader artist community as a mentor for ASMP’s The Bridge Program and Executive Producer of “The Crit House Podcast.”

Photograph by Ibarionex Perello

For the past five years, I have been working/collaborating with my daughter, Alexi. She has gravitated towards art since the moment she could hold a pencil. Now as an adult, it is a joy to have this special time in our lives to work together, make art and live out our dreams.