Allison Minto is a Connecticut-based photographer whose work explores the intersections of photography, community, and field research. Her practice centers African American archives, memory, and the acts of preservation and maintenance. Drawing from personal experience—whether navigating her own family archives or acknowledging the often-unseen role Black women play as stewards of generational memory—Minto attempts to render these experiences visible.
She holds an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, where she received the John Ferguson Weir Award for excellence, and a BA in Journalism from Buffalo State University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR).
Minto was recently named a Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery and a DocX Archive Lab Fellow at Duke University. She is a proud member of Diversify Photo and Black Women Photographers.