Marlena Sloss is a documentary photographer and storyteller living and working nomadically in her van, traveling from Juneau, Alaska to Oaxaca, Mexico. (See her current + upcoming locations at the bottom of the page). Her work focuses on human connection to nature and meaning.
Marlena has worked as a freelance photographer in the Bay Area, as a staff photographer at The Herald in Jasper, Indiana and has interned at The Washington Post, The Herald, The Evansville Courier and Press, The Post and Courier, The Juneau Empire, and The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. She holds an M.A. in Visual Communication - Photojournalism from Ohio University and a B.A. in Psychology from Whitman College. Marlena is in the 2023-2026 Anderson Ranch Long-Term Documentary Photography Workshop led by James Estrin and Ed Kashi. She was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, where she developed a deep connection to the earth. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia.
(907) 321-3108
marlena.sloss@gmail.com
Photo by Jonah Reenders
Select Clients
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The New Yorker
The Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg
The Guardian
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Free Press
Volunteer
The National Press Photographers Association
The Eddie Adams Workshop Black Team XXVI
Athens Photographic Project
The Whitman Wire 2024 Advisory Board
