Info — Marisa Chafetz

Marisa Chafetz (b. 1995) is a New York based photographer from Long Island, NY. She received her BFA in Photography from Tulane University in 2017. Her intimate work employs portraiture, sequence and collage to position individual narratives within broader ancestral and historical lineages. Her images have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, W Magazine, and i-D. In 2025, she published a two-person book, Whispers Against My Neck with Pomegranate Press.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Breathless in Glowing Air, 1014 Gallery, London, 2025
Out of the Dark, Delicia Studios, Brooklyn, 2025
11th International Exhibition, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, 2025
Love, Photo Book Cafe, London, 2025
Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, 2023
Homecoming, James Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, 2021
Fotofilmic18 (Traveling Exhibition), The Reference, Seoul, South Korea, 2020
Fotofilmic18 (Traveling Exhibition), Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada + SF Camera Work, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Negative Space III, Brooklyn Grain, Brooklyn, 2018
Fotofilmic Solo's 2017-2018 Retrospective, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, 2018
Marisa Chafetz FOTOFILMIC SOLO II Juried by Alec Soth, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2018
Motherhood Unveiled, Stitches and Pics, Sackets Harbor, 2018
Pond Magazine Presents, Chinatown Soup, New York, 2017
American Collective: Contemporary Reflections on Landscape and Identity, Stitches and Pics, Sackets Harbor, 2017
Permeable Boundaries, OCH Gallery at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Art Center, New Orleans, 2017
RECOLLECTIONS, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, 2017
We are Ugly but We Have the Music, Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, 2017

Selected Press

Innovate Grant, “Interview: Marisa Chafetz’s Reconnection”, 2025
Arcanite Pictures, “It’s Always Spring Break in Heaven”, 2024
Booooooom, “Butterfly Tattoo Portraits by Photographer Marisa Chafetz”, 2022
Booooooom, “We are Ugly but We Have the Music” by Photographer Marisa Chafetz”, 2020
The New York Times, “What’s Happening to Us? A Visual History of 2019”, 2019
Musée Magazine, “Photo Journal Monday: Marisa Chafetz”, 2019
i-D, “intimate photos of falling in love in New Orleans”, 2017
Fotofilmic, “FILM TALKS #32: MARISA CHAFETZ”, 2017
Fotoroom, “We Are Ugly but We Have the Music — Marisa Chafetz Turns the Lens on Her Own Family”, 2017
It's Nice That, “Photographer Marisa Chafetz’s filmic series revisits the beauty of her childhood”, 2017
Lenscratch, “MARISA CHAFETZ: WE ARE UGLY BUT WE HAVE THE MUSIC”, 2017
Fisheye Magazine, “Un été à New York: le récit de Marisa Chafetz”, 2017
Dazed Magazine, “Is this what your childhood nights looked like?”, 2015