Elizabeth Ransom

Elizabeth Ransom is an artist and researcher based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England. She is the Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group and a PhD candidate at the University for the Creative Arts. Ransom’s research investigates the lived experience of transnationality for migrant women and how this can be visualised using alternative photographic techniques. Ransom teaches at Western Washington University in the Art and Art History Department and runs courses and workshops at various art institutions in the US and the UK. As an artist and researcher, Ransom takes from her own lived experiences of migration to explore homesickness and transnationality. Her research builds on theories of migration, place attachment, and declarative episodic memory, particularly from the perspective of the migrant woman. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, India, Mexico, China and the US.