Marc Elliott

Over the past 45 years, Marc Elliott has worked collaboratively with artists, museums, collectors, and gallerists worldwide as a craftsperson and advisor in all phases of photographic and artistic endeavors. All along the way he never stopped making his own work.

He now works independently with a select group of artists and artisans in a variety of disciplines. He maintains a traditional analog practice called Swaggertown in Saxonville, Massachusetts—processing film and printing in the darkroom while he continues to work digitally with Acorn Editions which he co- founded in 2017. He also serves as a technical advisor to Cambridge-based A Street Frames. He continues to publish folios as part of Swaggertown.

Since 2021 he has been working on a survey of the early suburban neighborhood in upstate New York where he grew up. The project consists of 56 individual houses photographed with a whole plate camera. These photographs will be paired with both the basic property histories and related data to be accompanied by vignettes recounting the moments in time - large and small - related to the lives lived in these homes.

Born in Manhasset, New York in 1958, he received a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980. Besides his work as the man behind the curtains for many, he served as a founding member of the Penumbra Foundation in New York and a board member for the Photographic Resource Center, Boston. His work is held in collections both public and private.

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Swaggertown sampling 35 6.5 x 8.5" Gelatin silver contact prints $300 per print Unframed, Sold in sets

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