Ray Mortenson (b. 1944) is a New York City–based landscape photographer who studied art and sculpture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s. Compelled by the natural disarray of ignored places, he has been exploring industrial zones, neglected urban neighborhoods, and isolated natural areas along the metropolitan corridor of the northeastern United States for nearly fifty years. 

His profiles of places are made using a variety of camera formats and photographic processes. Darkroom prints range in size from intimate contacts to mural sized multi-paneled pieces. Over the past four decades he has also produced a series of unique or small editioned artist books. These are in addition to a number of publications, most sought after among them is the 1983 Lustrum Press book, Meadowland.

Mortenson’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the U.S. since the 1980s and is held in the permanent collections of more than 40 museums in the US, Canada, France, and Japan.