Deb Achak is an American photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She spent 15 years working at the intersection of healthcare and mental health and earned a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Washington. She later left that practice to pursue photography, using the visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others.
Achak’s photographs have been featured in more than 40 exhibitions, including the National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico; the Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China; the Sofia Photography Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Gastfeld Gallery, Bremen, Germany. Within the United States, she has presented four solo exhibitions at Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle and one solo exhibition at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York and has participated in group exhibitions at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Lehman College Art Gallery, and others. She was named a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist in 2021 and 2023 and received the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2023. In 2023, she published her first monograph, All the Colors I Am Inside, with Kehrer Verlag.
