Dana Lixenberg is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker born in Amsterdam in 1964. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). Her work primarily focuses on long-term projects documenting individuals and communities on the margins of society, often using a large format 4x5-inch field camera. Notable works include 'Jeffersonville, Indiana' (2005), which documents the homeless population of a small town over seven years, and 'The Last Days of Shishmaref' (2008), which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island in Alaska facing climate change.
