BIOGRAPHY

Alison Crouse is a filmmaker and photographer living in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University, and her BFA in Photography from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. 

Alison’s work encompasses still and moving image, relying on the unique properties of each to explore the intersections of time and motion, observation and reflection, and character and history.

Her narrative short, A Song of Fishes screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Iris Prize, Mix Brasil, and the GAZE – Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. It was distributed by Indie Media Entertainment. Her photographic series, Devastation Portraits, captured performances of despair staged in public spaces, and has been featured in ICPConcerned: Global Images for a Global Crisis, BuzzFeed, Metro.uk, the NPR Picture Show, and InVivo magazine. Tag Sale, her newest documentary short, was completed in early 2026.

crouse.alison@gmail(dot)com

@devastationportraits