Ellen Harasimowicz began her career in documentary photography, working primarily for the Boston Globe, and later specialized 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 nine-generation small family farm in Still River, Massachusetts. Currently, she is working on a collaborative project about apples with a local orchardist/writer/sculptor.
In 2022, Harasimowicz received her MFA in Photography from Maine Media College.
