Erika Larsen

Erika Larsen was born in 1976 and is a transdisciplinary storyteller and photographer who is known for her intimate essays about cultures that maintain strong connections with nature. She immerses readers in cultures through her visual storytelling. Erika Larsen grew up in Washington, D.C. Her father was one of the designers of the Hubble Space Telescope. Strongly moved by the Hubble images, Larsen picked a technical university to hone her photography skills and become a storyteller in the process. Between 1994 and 1999, Larsen received a B.F.A in Photographic Illustration and an M.F.A. in Computer Graphics and Film/Video from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She began working professionally as a magazine photographer in 2000, specializing in human-interest stories.

Erika Larsen is a multidisciplinary storyteller who works in photography, writing, and video.
She is fascinated by the way people communicate with the natural world.
Her monograph ‘Sami-Walking with Reindeer’, a reflection of her time living in the Scandinavian Arctic, was published in 2013.

Larsen was a 2017 Fellow with the National Geographic Society for an ongoing project exploring how communities that maintain close ties to nature communicate this relationship through ritual.

Her work has been included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, National Geographic Society, Fotografiska Museum, and the United States Embassy in Oslo.