Marisa Scheinfeld

Marisa Scheinfeld was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1980 and raised in the Catskills. She received a B.A. from the State University at Albany in 2002, and a MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. Her work is motivated by an interest in the landscape and its embedded histories, both apparent and hidden. Marisa's photographic projects and books are among the collections of the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Yeshiva University Museum, The National Yiddish Book Center, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life at UC Berkeley, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and The Edmund and Nancy K. Dubois Library at the Museum of Photographic Arts. Marisa is a frequent guest lecturer and her photographs have been exhibited widely throughout the United States and in the UK. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Slate Magazine, Yahoo Travel, Village Voice, The Jerusalem Post, American Photography, Tablet Magazine and The Jewish Daily Forward. On October 4, 2016, Cornell University Press released her first book entitled The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland. Marisa is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at SUNY Purchase and working on her second book. For more information visit www.marisascheinfeld.com or www.borschtbeltbook.com