Ellen Shub is an award winning photojournalist and special event photographer with 25 years experience.

Her goal is always to create authentic comprehensive and distinctive photographs whether on assignment as a photojournalist or capturing the meaning and emotion of a special event.

Her photography is published by wire services, newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad and is widely featured in textbooks. It has appeared in advertising, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, films, television, multi image presentations and Internet applications. 

Clients include the AIDS Action Committee, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, Boston Medical center, the Ford Foundation, Harvard University, the New York Times, Showtime, Simon and Schuster, and WGBH Boston.

She is a member of the National Press Photographers Association and the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Her photographs have appeared in over 20 exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, California, Belgium and Kenya, in the Time- Life Book Series Our American Century, and are in the collection of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America of the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.

She is well known for her photographs documenting peace and social justice issues in America which have appeared in newspapers, on PBS, and in publications of  organizations engaged in social activism.

Her archive includes photographs of grassroots activists and organizations, and portraits of many 20th century icons including Nobel Laureates, authors and historical figures such as Margaret Mead, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.