Elizabeth Siegfried, born in Baltimore Maryland, has lived and worked in Canada for nearly thirty years. She has a BA in English from Skidmore College and graduated from Maine Media College with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography.
Siegfried is known for her portraiture, meditative landscapes and strong narratives and her work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, Spain, Japan, and Mexico. She taught platinum printing for 12 years at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto and has received numerous awards in the U.S. and Canada. Her photographs have been reproduced and discussed in such publications as Black & White Magazine, Shadow and Light Magazine, SHOTS magazine, and Camera Arts. In 2017 the CBC aired a video on her multi-generational collaboration called CIRCUS! Her first book, LifeLines, was published in 2000.
Siegfried’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography housed in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and the Peter E. Palmquest Women in Photography International Archive held at the Beinicke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Elizabeth presently works with digital capture and explores the expression of color but has not lost her love of historical processes and analogue photography. She spends half the year in Canada and half the year in Sarasota, Florida.
