Earl Dotter (born July 24, 1943) is an American occupational photographer best known for documenting some of America's most dangerous jobs, including coal mining, textile manufacturing, asbestos, emergency responders at the World Trade Center site, and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While attending he purchased a Rolleiflex camera and started photographing the San Francisco Bay Area.

[1] Dotter's photographs have been featured on the cover of New York Magazine and in The Saturday Evening Post.

[5] One of Dotter's photographs was used on social media without permission as part of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, according to the Mueller report.

[6] Dotter taught photography at Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy and has been a visiting scholar with the Harvard T.H.