Dorfman’s most recent series, Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay, explores 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 is a monograph published by Channel Photographics.

Elena Dorfman was raised in Boston and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives both in New York and San Francisco. Her fine art is represented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, and her commercial work is represented by Redeye, in Los Angeles.