About Lisa Russman

Lisa Russman is an interiors photographer and creative director. In 2024, she founded Space Trolley Collective to build partnerships between designers and creative businesses and community arts, culture, and service organizations.

Lisa has been shooting interiors and architecture since 2010 and approaches each project with two key objectives. The first is to create breathtaking images that are luminous and convey the design aesthetic of each designer or brand she works with. The second is to shape a complete visual set that reveals that project’s unique narrative. In this way, she is a creative director on every project she photographs. She also steps into this role for designers who have an established relationship with a photographer but want a creative vision and strategy for a stand-out project.

Working with award-winning designers and leading national home brands, her photographs have been published in House Beautiful, Rue, Business of Home, AD Pro, My Domaine, One Kings Lane, Blueprint, Design NJ, and Aspire Design + Home, as well as in campaigns for companies such as Knoll, Industry West, and Jamie Stern Furniture, Carpet & Leather.

Her approach is built upon a formative career in arts and cultural communications. At NY-based firms, at the American Museum of Natural History, and later as a consultant, Lisa developed and launched integrated media, public relations, and strategic communications campaigns for major museum openings, exhibition sponsorships, and cultural projects that raised visibility, increased audience engagement, and supported the arts and economic development in the U.S. and abroad. Favorite projects include the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum (Cleveland, OH), the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space and Hayden Planetarium (NY, NY), and Dia: Beacon (Beacon, NY).

Lisa has a B.A. in Art History from Tufts University, where she also studied photography with American photographer Jim Dow, whose work had a profound impact on how she views the built world today. She is a Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Montclair Art Museum, where she is a co-chair of their Marketing and Audience Development Committee.