Bio
Dorfman’s 2007 series, Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay, explored the world of costume play—a pop-cultural phenomenon exported from Japan, now exploding in the US. The subjects in this series are extreme fans who frequent conventions worldwide, who dress up and live as characters from video games, Japanese manga and anime. A book of the same title has been published by Aperture.

Still Lovers, the photographic series that preceeded Fandomania, examined the intimate and domestic lives of men and women who live with life-sized silicone sex dolls. Still Lovers, the monograph, was published by Channel Photographics. Both series were the subject of solo shows at both the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, and multiple cities worldwide.

Elena lives between Los Angeles and New York.