Emily Sheffer

Emily Sheffer is a photographic artist, educator, and book designer. She is the founder of Dust Collective, a handmade and small edition photography book publisher. Her photographic work examines the relationship between landscape, time, and materiality, using photography and book arts to explore narratives within the natural world. Through these artworks, she invites viewers to touch, feel, and move through layers of history, geology, and myth, encouraging a reflection on our relationship with landscape. Dust Collective, founded by Sheffer in 2017, is a New England-based publisher specializing in small-edition, handmade photography books. Each Dust Collective book is skillfully designed, showing a close attention to material and the beauty of the photographic image. Dust Collective publishes works that address landscape, often as metaphor, memory, and narrative space.