Elysabeth Cianci is a visual artist and educator working at the confluence of photographic process and ecology to document the ephemerality of the natural world. She lives in the mountains of Vermont and works in Boston, Massachusetts.

As a matrix-based artist creating work in series and multiples, Cianci sustains an interdisciplinary practice within the fields of analog photography, printmaking, and book arts. Cianci's work celebrates the materiality of the photographic process and its ephemeral beginnings as it relates to time-bound work and draws upon the ideas of trace, layers, and convergence to represent a multiverse made known through a collection of visual-mappings of the natural world. These eclipsing landscapes act as a careful study of the language of light. Her practice rethinks photography’s dark past through the use of sustainable darkroom processing including plant-based development methods, energy and water conservation, and non-toxic imagemaking methods out of a concern for the medium's contributions to the pollution of waterways, soil, and the atmosphere. Her work is a result of an ongoing collaboration with the environment. She refers to her images, artist books, and works on paper as field notes– dynamic records documenting our marked and unequivocally deep interconnectedness to ecological systems.

When she’s not creating, she can be found studying stones in a riverbed, reading Annie Dillard, or moth hunting.