Fact: Life is a journey.

Fact: We all experience grief. And we all process it differently.

Fact: I process my world through image-making and art.

From 2017–2019, I was deep in creation mode developing a body of work originally called “Betrayal,” which is now titled “Hope.”

This work was made out of dire necessity during a difficult period. Turning the camera upon myself, I created portraits that in the act of capturing, printing, slicing, and reassembling helped me to process and separate from the experience I was going through. It is only years later that this deeply personal work has found a place in a broader conversation.

I’m so honored that Why from this body of work has been curated into an upcoming exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ.

Picturing Grief: Family, Life, and Longing features works by twenty-seven contemporary artists—including photographs, video, and an artist book—chosen for the way the artists expressed the intense and often invisible process of grieving. The reception will feature a conversation between exhibition co-curators Rebecca Senf and Mary-Frances O’Connor, moderated by Mackenzie Mayer, an undergraduate student in the University of Arizona School of Art.

I will be at the opening reception at CCP. If you are in the area, would love to meet you there! Please RSVP.

Coming March 2027…

The Extended Frame: A Collection of Urban Stories (solo)
SASSE Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
March 5 – 27, 2027

A multimedia collaborative exhibition featuring photographic compositions by Ellen Friedlander alongside music by Grammy-winning musician M.B. Gordy.

Official save the date with exhibition events will be shared in the coming months… Please put a soft hold on Saturday, March 13, 2027 for a special gathering at the museum.