Elisabeth Vasquez Hein
is a Filipina American photographic artist and writer based in Seattle, Washington. Influenced by her upbringing in disparate geographies, her work explores displacement, in-betweenness, and belonging. As the daughter of an immigrant, she seeks to understand her roots in the context of diaspora and colonization.
She is a graduate of the Fine Art Photography certificate program at Photographic Center Northwest, where she exhibited her thesis project “In Skin and Spirit | Sa Balat at Espiritu.”
Elisabeth has shared her work reflecting on mixed-race identity and cultural inheritance in artist talks and readings with the Photographic Center Northwest, the Richard Hugo House, Japanese Americans Citizen League, and Coffee & Grief.
Elisabeth holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her work in community-based organizations has focused on education, language, and marginalized populations in Washington State, Texas, Chile, and Peru.