Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer known for his surreal composite photographs created through darkroom techniques. He was born in 1934 in Detroit and studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Indiana University. Uelsmann developed his unique photographic style of layering multiple negatives in the darkroom to create surreal composite images while working as a graduate assistant at Indiana University. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide and he taught photography at the University of Florida.