Emma Ressel (born Bar Harbor, ME) is an artist working with large format film photography, re-photography, and archives. Her current work researches natural history collections to examine how we describe nature to ourselves over vast timescales. Ressel earned her BA in Photography at Bard College and her MFA at the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited solo shows at The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Her work is in permanent collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Ressel is on the shortlist for the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize, and in 2022 she won the Film Photo Student Award. Her first photobook, Olives in the street, was published by Edizione del bradipo in 2017, and she has since self-published 2 additional photobooks, Glass Eyes Stare Back (2024), and Extant Erosions (2025). Ressel is currently a Post-Doc fellow at the Center for Regional Studies at University of New Mexico. She lives and works in Albuquerque, NM.