Ellen De is a visual artist working primarily with photography. Her practice explores how memory and perception shape emotional experience and construct symbolic meaning. Moving between documentary language and abstraction, her images transform bodies, spaces, and landscapes into psychologically charged territories suspended between presence and absence.

Across her work, recurring themes emerge around alienation, grief, longing, emotional memory, and the fragile tension between intimacy and isolation. Her images linger in the space between what fades and what remains, between memory and imagination, often evoking futures that never came into existence. Through stark compositions and an atmospheric use of light and shadow, her work inhabits a liminal space between dream and document, tenderness and violence, closeness and distance.

Rather than functioning as representations of reality, her images approach photography as a way of constructing emotional and symbolic experience.