hello!
I'm Emma, a writer, photographer, designer, and coffee-addicted art history professional based between New York and Baltimore. I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2019 with degrees in graphic design and art history, and have worked in art museums and galleries ever since. I've photographed weddings, portraits and brands as the founder and owner of Emma Weiss Photo for the past seven years. I was also a barista at Starbucks for one summer. And sometimes I mow my grandparents' lawn.
I fill pages with wordplay and camera rolls with photoplay. I love to experiment with spicy-sweet flavors in a cast iron pan, with the way light dances in a stream of coffee from my French press, with the way my feet take me wandering through the meandering paths of Central Park. I see stories dripping deliciously from every moment, to a degree that is at once intoxicating, grounding, expansive and magnificent. It is this that first led me to writing, then art museums, then photography, and then design: the beautiful and foundational connections in our human stories that stretch across time and space and unfold in poetry, etymology, captured moments, thoughtful communication, and expression of all kinds.
It is my goal to unravel these connections with curiosity and clarity, to create experiences—through words or images, designs or exhibitions—that illuminate the stories and throughlines within them and speak to the glorious individuality and universality of the human experience.
welcome to my internet home.
{My site is currently under construction as I slowly update & add elements. I am excited to continue to explore my ways of being, and I cannot wait to connect with you as I share more of my multifaceted work—but I am resisting perfection and pressing publish even in this deeply stretching and growing stage!}