Ellen Harasimowicz began her career in documentary photography, working primarily for the Boston Globe, and later specializing in education and NGO photography. Harasimowicz has produced award-winning children's books about nature with publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Henry Holt, Millbrook, and Charlesbridge. Assignments and personal projects have taken Harasimowicz to more than thirty countries, including remote locations like Nagaland in Northeast India, where she photographed various ethnic groups, and the Andaman Sea in Myanmar, where her work focused on the Moken who traditionally have lived a semi-nomadic life on the water but now must live on the land. During the pandemic, Harasimowicz stayed close to home and documented the end of a small family farm in Still River, Massachusetts after nearly 350 years. Currently, she is working on a project about apples with a local orchardist/writer/sculptor and a more extensive project about four women who own and operate multi-generational orchards in her hometown of Harvard, Massachusetts.
In 2022, Harasimowicz received her MFA in Photography from Maine Media College.
photo © Kathryn Costello
