Stas Ginzburg is a Brooklyn-based portrait photographer and queer refugee from Russia. His work highlights LGBTQ+ communities and activism in the United States. Ginzburg’s photography has recently been shown at the Queens Museum, Photoville NYC, the National Portrait Gallery, and Somerset House in London. His images are included in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in fall 2022.

Ginzburg’s project Sanctuary, an intimate collection of portraits of queer, trans, and non-binary individuals in their homes, was shortlisted for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture (2024) and the Sony World Photography Awards (2025), and was featured in The Guardian and The Sunday Times Magazine. Ginzburg is the founder of Liberation Archives, a digital platform dedicated to preserving LGBTQ photography through visual storytelling. He holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design.