Ellen Stagg

Early life and education

Born and raised in Easton, Connecticut, Stagg moved to New York City in 1996. She attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where she received a BFA in Photography.

Career

Stagg signed with her first agent during her junior year at SVA. After five years Stagg moved on and had her first major ad campaign with Nixon watches within a year.

Stagg has shot for magazines such as Teen Vogue, Life, Vibe, i-D, Flaunt, and The Fader. Her celebrity portfolio includes Scarlett Johansson, Fallout Boy, Tony Hawk, Moby, and Tenacious D.

Stagg Street blog

Since the age of 16, Stagg had a particular interest and fascination with erotic art. It was not until 2005, however, that she began a focused and concentrated pursuit of erotic photography. Upon meeting erotic model and girl-on-girl porn star Justine Joli, Stagg started exploring erotic photography. She began shooting well-known porn, fetish and glamor models. The images were too artsy for porn magazines, and too porn-like for so called "erotic" publications and websites. With no exhibition outlet for her images, she started The Stagg Street blog.

IFC documentary

In 2008, the Independent Film Channel released a webisode documentary covering Stagg's erotic work.

Of The Stagg Party, Maria Russo wrote in LA Times:

"With its rampant female nudity and nonjudgmental adult industry theme, the voyeuristic Web hordes will love it. But the show's soft-touch intelligence and compelling characters give it depth."

Stagg continues to do commercial work in advertising, fashion and celebrity photography while expanding the reach of Stagg Street. Due to the word-of-mouth popularity and growth of staggstreet.com, the site is eventually going to be converted to a pay site, with photo books, gallery shows and a documentary slated for development.

Exhibition history

Asbury Lanes Curated Show & was in Group Show, 'The Modern Pin Up', Asbury Park, NJ 2012

Lux & Eros Group Show, 'Map of Tasmania', Venice, CA 2012

Parlor Gallery Group Show, 'Erotic & Ladies', Asbury Park 2012

Parlor Gallery Group Show, 'Fun is the Law', Asbury Park, NJ 2012

Sexy Art Gallery Group Show, 'Porn Saints', Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011

Parlor Gallery Group Show, 'Down & Dirty', Asbury Park, NJ 2011

Shag Solo Show, 'Flip, Flirt and Feel', Brooklyn, NY 2011

Mighty Tanaka, Group Show "Cimmerian Shade", New York City 2010

Nixon Art Mosh, Group Show New York City, 2010

Fuse Gallery, Solo Show 'Melting Flesh', New York City 2010

Das Museum, Porn Saints Group Show, Zurich, 2010

Parlor Gallery Group Show, 'Shameless', Asbury Park, NJ 2010

Bird House Gallery, Porn Saints Group Show, Austin, TX 2010

Nixon Art Mosh, Group Show, New York City, 2009

Mishka Store, Calendar Release Party w/ Solo Show, 2009

Parlor Gallery Group Show, 'Petite Mort', Asbury Park, NJ 2009

Center of Sex and Culture Gallery 2008

Femina Potens Gallery Group Show 'I Touch Myself', 2008

Fuse Gallery Group Show 'Revelation', 2007

Sensei Gallery Collaborative Project "Practical Stagg", 2007

Frank151 Chop Shop Group Show, 2006

Vice Magazine Traveling Group Show on Hockey, 2005

Art Directors Club Young Guns 3, 2001

SVA Mentors Program and Show, 2000

SVA Wooster Gallery Group Show, 1999

SVA West Side Gallery Show, 1998

Print and TV

Karmaloop TV 'Behind the lens', 2011-now

Mishka calendar 2013

Playboy badass 2010 & 2011

Mishka Calendars 2009, 2010, 2011

Playboy TV "Badass", 2010

Date these New Yorkers

Film "Nights and Weekends", 2008

Sex Television Episode June 7, 2008

Film "Alexander the Last", 2008

Johnnie Walker Blue's 35 under 35 Most influential New Yorkers, 2007

Fader Magazine Photographers Issues, 2003 and 2004

Personal life

Stagg resides in Brooklyn.