California Gull, Larus californicus No. 1 2025 Pigment ink on cotton rag paper 30 x 45 inches. View project


David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist focused on contemporary issues of biodiversity and more-than-human life.

Based in British Columbia, his environmental projects highlight the cascading crises of biodiversity loss, deforestation, pollution and climate breakdown.

In partnership with these often challenging subjects, David maintains a long term, restorative practice making time-based landscape photographs in the Pacific Northwest.