David Ellingsen is a Canadian photographer creating images that speak to the relationship between humans and the natural world. A restless artist, Ellingsen maintains a varied practice within his medium of which intersections form the foundation – intersections of observer and participant, documentary photography and contemporary art, archivist and surrealist.
Ellingsen’s photographs are exhibited internationally and are part of the permanent collections of the Chinese Museum of Photography, South Korea's Datz Museum of Art and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum. They have been shortlisted for the Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, appeared in National Geographic, and awarded First Place at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards.
Ellingsen lives and makes his work in Canada’s Pacific Northwest, moving between the city of Victoria and the remote island of Cortes where he was raised.
Finalist, LensCulture Earth Awards: Spectral remains of the old forest peek through gaps in new growth—a daunting reminder of one family’s part in British Columbia’s forest industry.
