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The Ancestral Wealth

Looking out at my home Orchha, India, I appreciated the beauty of the 16th century town. Unchanged since the 1500s, its golden medieval enchantment held the secrets of centuries. Once there was a soothsayer, who predicted that my family would become rich and famous away from Orchha. My father sent the profit on his way with some fresh naan and fig wine. We remain in Orchha……untroubled by dreams of wealth. We are rich in the history of our ancestors.

Ellen Fisch

Ellen Fisch was born and raised in Brooklyn, NYC. At a young age, Fisch began to use observations of her surroundings combined with her imaginative curiosity to create new and wonderful worlds. This all began when Fisch, aged 4, looked through an elaborate brass vent into her backyard and imagined that she had discovered a secret garden. Throughout years of studying photography, drawing, architecture and painting, Fisch learned to seamlessly blend the interdisciplinary arts into her photography. Later, as a professional photographer, artist and architectural draftsman, Fisch honed her skills in the vital mastery of sharing her distinctive visions with others.