about
Dominique Ellis is a visual artist and researcher. She received her MFA in Photography in 2025 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and she uses photography as a vehicle for storytelling, collaboration, and advocacy to document environmental, cultural, and historical change. Ellis was awarded a U.S. Fulbright student scholarship for Egypt, as well as an Arabic language grant for 2009-2010, and was based in Cairo, Egypt. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, from 2006 to 2008, working for the Moroccan Ministry of Handicrafts. Her ongoing research is focused on Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) and the Berenice Abbott Archives. She is currently writing creative non-fiction that examines Abbott's experimental projection method from 1942-1962 through a queer lens.
