Tealia Ellis Ritter is an American artist. Her debut monograph, The Model Family, was released in March, 2022 by Loose Joints. Ellis Ritter's work contends with the intersecting roles of the photograph as personal document, familial marker of time and object with physical surface. Her interests lie in exploring the complex relationship between photographer and subject, the changing nature of intimacy over time and photography’s role in performance and archive creation. She is presently engaged in a long term collaborative project with her family focusing on the physicality and vulnerability of the human body.

Ellis Ritter’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently by Aperture, Taschen NYC, the Swab Art Fair, Barcelona and as part of Designing Women III: MOTHER. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, AnOther Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine, i-D, Mouvement Magazine, France, Youthies, Public Editions, The Financial Times of London and Elephant Magazine. The Model Family, as well as additional works, are included in numerous private and public collections including the library at MoMA, The University of Iowa, Rutgers and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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