A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, Debi Cornwall is a multimedia documentary artist who returned to visual expression after a twelve-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Marrying dark humor with structural critique, she uses still and moving images, testimony, and archival material to examine the staging and performance of American power and identity. Debi Cornwall was awarded the 2023 Prix Elysée, a biennial juried contemporary photography prize, to complete and publish Model Citizens. Notable profiles of her work have appeared in European Photography, British Journal of Photography, and Art in America.