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 and the Andaman Sea in Myanmar, where she photographed ethnic groups living subsistence lifestyles.
During the pandemic, when international travel was challenging, if not impossible, Harasimowicz focused her camera on her local community. She spent three years documenting the end of a small family farm with a nearly 350-year history. After that farm closed, she collaborated with a local organic orchardist/writer to create a book titled Overheard in the Orchard – available this summer. Harasimowicz is also working on a more extensive project titled Orchard Women, which is 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
