Mercedes Jelinek (born 1985) is an American photographer working in New York and Italy.
[1] She specializes in black and white portraiture, and her work has been published and exhibited internationally.
Jelinek was born in 1985 and graduated high school in Madison, Connecticut.
[2] She attended Purchase College, State University of New York, where she earned a BFA in Visual Arts[3] and Louisiana State University, where she received her MFA.
[5] Jelinek's book These Americans,[6] published by Kris Graves Projects, NYC (2017), is a series of photographs depicting individuals who attended the Women’s March (January 21, 2017) on Washington DC and has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art.