Ethan James Green

Ethan James Green
Born
Ethan James Green

1990 (age 35–36)[1]
Caledonia, Michigan, U.S.
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • filmmaker
  • director
  • gallerist
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Signature

Ethan James Green (born 1990) is an American photographer, former fashion model, and the founder of New York Life Gallery.

Early life

Green grew up in Caledonia, Michigan, where he began photographing his friends at the age of 14. In 2007, at age 17, he signed with Ford Models,[2] and he moved to New York City the following year.[3]

As a model, he appeared in a Calvin Klein campaign[4] and was photographed by David Armstrong, appearing in Armstrong's 2011 book 615 Jefferson Ave.[5] He began working as Armstrong's assistant,[6] and Armstrong became his mentor.[1][7]

Career

Photography

Black-and-white portrait of a young person with shoulder-length hair outdoors, arms bent around the head, wearing a simple white shirt and jeans, gazing at the camera.
Marcs, 2015, from the series Young New York

After relocating to New York, Green continued photographing his friends and peers, often meeting subjects through nightlife[8] and social media.[2] Early subjects included actress and model Hari Nef; stylist and Interview's fashion director Dara; photographer Cruz Valdez; models Avie Acosta, Marcs Goldberg, and Stevie Triano; writer Devan Diaz; and artist and poet Ser Serpas.[7][9]

Green is openly gay.[10] In 2014,[11] he began taking portraits of his queer, transgender, and nonbinary friends, usually in the Lower East Side's Corlears Hook Park. The portraits, some of which appeared on Tumblr, drew comparisons to Diane Arbus.[1][2] In 2019, Aperture Foundation published the portraits as the monograph Young New York.

Green's second monograph, Bombshell, was published by Baron in 2024. The work, made from 2021 to 2022, invited his models to style and pose themselves around the idea of the "bombshell" archetype.[12]

As a commercial photographer, Green has shot editorials for Arena Homme +, Dazed, Double Magazine, Foam Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, L'Uomo Vogue, MARFA, le Monde, Perfect, The New Yorker, Time, Vogue, Vogue Italia, W Magazine, and WSJ Magazine; campaigns for Alexander McQueen, Dior, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Prada, Tom Ford, and Versace; and portraits of Naomi Campbell, Bella Hadid, Kate Moss, Rihanna, RuPaul, and John Waters.[13]

In 2025, Green was selected as the photographer for the Pirelli Calendar, an annual publication produced by Pirelli since 1964. His edition was titled Refresh and Reveal.[14]

In 2022, Green transformed his Chinatown studio into an artist-run exhibition space, establishing New York Life Gallery.[15] The gallery has presented a range of projects, including a live performance by painter and illustrator Drake Carr and an archive of work by the late photographer Steven Cuffie.[16] The gallery also organizes artist-led programs and publishes zines and small-run artist publications.

Exhibitions

Solo

  • "Made to Last". New York, NY: Fotografiska. 2022.
  • "Bombshell". New York, NY: Kapp Kapp. 2024.
  • "Bombshell". Los Angeles, CA: Mariposa Gallery. 2025.

Group

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Schulman, Michael (March 12, 2019). "A Counterculture Portraitist's Chronicle of New York's Youth". The New Yorker.
  2. 1 2 3 Shulman, Michael (2017). "Ethan James Green". Aperture. No. 229. pp. 130–137.
  3. ↑ Allen, Eric (April 9, 2019). "Ethan James Green Photographs 'Young New York'". The Last Magazine. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Kevin Carrigan, Ethan James Green & Reid Rohling". Out. Vol. 24, no. 5. December 1, 2015. p. 104.
  5. ↑ Eckart, Stephanie (March 21, 2017). "Get to Know Ethan James Green, the Photographer Proving 'Diversity' Isn't Just a Buzzword". W Magazine.
  6. ↑ Clipson, Ellen. "Ethan James Green's 'Young New York' Captures Stories of Non-Conformists Breaking Stereotypes". EyeEm. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019.
  7. 1 2 Strecker, Alexander. "Young New Yorkers". LensCulture.
  8. ↑ Hawgood, Alex (February 2, 2017). "Ex-Model Turns His Lens on Society's Fringe". The New York Times. p. D6.
  9. ↑ Marzec, Kirby (May 25, 2016). "10 Portraits of New York City's Most Fabulous LGBT Kids". Teen Vogue.
  10. ↑ Borrelli-Persson, Laird (November 17, 2020). "'We're at the Beginning of Something Really Great'—Ethan James Green on the Future of Fashion Photography". Vogue.
  11. ↑ Morosi, Sara (March 29, 2019). "Ethan James Green on Capturing the Faces of NYC's Queer Youth". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. ↑ Aster, Brook (September 16, 2024). "Ethan James Green's Bombshells". Office Magazine.
  13. ↑ Rodgers, Daniel (July 21, 2021). "The morning after the night before: New York bursts back to life". Dazed.
  14. ↑ "Refresh and Reveal: The Cal™ 2025". Pirelli. August 15, 2024.
  15. ↑ Smith, Melissa (June 21, 2023). "How Photographer Ethan James Green Turned His Studio Into a Bustling Art Gallery". Cultured Magazine.
  16. ↑ Wheeler, André-Naquian (October 27, 2022). "Ethan James Green's New Gallery Space Celebrates Baltimore Photographer Steven Cuffie". Vogue.
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