Janet Russek is a photographer and, since 1980, has operated the photography gallery Scheinbaum and Russek Ltd. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her partner, David Scheinbaum. She was a founding member of the Santa Fe Children's Museum and has served on the Board of Directors of both the Association of International Photography Art Dealers and The Marion Center for Photographic Arts. Russek has curated numerous exhibitions, including La Mirada Critica, Luis Gonzalez Palma, and the Lannan Foundation (2007). Her photographs have been featured in numerous periodicals, including Black & White Magazine, Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, The Santa Fean, and Trend Magazine, and in books such as Judy Chicago and Frances Borzello's Frida Kahlo: Face to Face (Prestel Publishing, 2010), Thomas F. Barrow and Kristin Barendsen's Photography, New Mexico (Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008), Mary Anne Redding and Krista Elrick's Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008). Russek's books include The Tenuous Stem (Radius Books, 2013), and, with David Scheinbaum, Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side (Radius Books, 2017), Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004), and Ghost Ranch: Land of Light (Balcony Press, 1997). Her Website is janetrussek.com.