Eli Durst is a photographer based in Austin, TX where he teaches at the University of Texas’ College of Fine Arts. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 2011, he worked at the renowned fine art printing studio Griffin Editions in Brooklyn while also serving as an assistant to street photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

Eli received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art and is the winner of the 2016 Aperture Portfolio Prize, a 2017 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant, and a 2019 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Eli is the author of two monographs, The Community (Mörel Books, 2020) and The Four Pillars  (Loose Joints, 2022). 

Eli’s work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, VICE, Wallpaper, and Texas Monthly among others.

Contact: eli.durst at gmail.com