Janelle Lynch is an American artist who uses a large-format camera and alternative processes in her search for and celebration of connection in the natural and spiritual worlds.
Lynch’s work has been shown worldwide and is in many private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Lynch has three Radius Books monographs: Los Jardines de México (2010); AIGA award-winning Barcelona (2013), which also features her writings; and Another Way of Looking at Love (2018), which includes an essay by Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs, Christie’s. Her work has been featured in publications including Harper's Magazine, Photograph Magazine, and The Guardian. She is the recipient of several honors and grants, including three from Kodak.
In 2019, her series, Another Way of Looking at Love, was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the leading award in photography and sustainability. A related exhibition opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum and traveled to nine international venues. In 2023, Flowers Gallery opened a critically-acclaimed exhibition of Endless Forms Most Beautiful in London. And in 2024, Janelle Lynch: Endless Forms Most Beautiful, a short documentary film by Mia Allen will premiere in New York City.
Lynch is represented by Flowers Gallery. She teaches at the International Center of Photography and lives in New York City and Amagansett, New York.