Elijah Cristiano is a multidisciplinary artist living and creating on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). Spanning photography, videography and sound art, Elijah engages with notions of place, positionality and relationships between humans and environments. Expanding upon his early photographic explorations of the body and self, Elijah creates recordings, photographs and video works that examine the relationships between human and ecological environments. Through an embodied practice of walking, listening, and close observation, he challenges human-centred understandings of ecosystems by engaging land and waterways as active collaborators. Using methods such as underwater videography through which the camera is guided by water currents, he relinquishes control of the making process and shares authorship with the environment. Informed by environmental ethics, his work responds to ecological crises by highlighting the importance of environmental care and responsibility in the face of a collapsing climate. 

Elijah is in his final year of the Master of Photography at RMIT University. He has had solo exhibitions at the RMIT University IDEA Gallery (2025) and TBH Studios (2024), and has recently shown work at the Pingyao International Festival of Photography (2025). Previously, he has participated in group exhibitions at Louis Joel Gallery (2025, 2023, 2019), Unassigned Gallery (2025, 2024), Sol Gallery (2025), fortyfivedownstairs (2024), A-N Studio (2024),  RMIT IDEA Gallery (2024), Fitzroy Art Collective (2024), TBH Studios (2024), Fly Little Bird Gallery (2023), Incinerator Gallery (2019) and Trocadero Projects (2019). In 2020, Elijah was the recipient of the Phoenix Youth Photography prize. Elijah currently volunteers with Avenue Productions where he collaboratively plans, develops and delivers arts and music events for young people in Moonee Valley. He has also co-designed artist development programs with young people to support young artists.