Lori Grinker (born 1957) is an American documentary art photographer and filmmaker from New York City. She is best known for her self-directed, long-term documentary projects, and has conducted these projects through photography, video and multimedia. Grinker has had two books of her work published and been exhibited internationally. She has received a World Press Photo award, an Open Society Institute Distribution grant, the Ernst Hass Grant, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant. Her work has been featured in Life, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, and GEO among others.