Janet Russek is a photographer living and working in New Mexico. In 2013 Radius Books published, The Tenuous Stem, a retrospective of Russek’s work chronicling a 20-year project using still life as a metaphor for the life cycle. Janet Russek has collaborated with David Scheinbaum on three projects and publications, Ghost Ranch: Land of Light, Photographs by David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek, Balcony Press, 1997, the accompanying exhibition traveled through the Museum of New Mexico; Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching, The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005 which won the American Association of Museums award for design in 2005. Their latest collaboration and publication was a project photographing on the Lower East Side of New York, which resulted in the publication Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side, Radius Books, 2017. 

Her work on social issues, Me Too and Not One More uses classical sculpture and painting pared with phrases from Spam emails, and historical images that she pairs with words from the Me Too and Not One More movements.  The work was exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2018 and traveled to the Windgate Art and Design Gallery at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, in 2020.  

In 2022 the Wheelbarrow work was exhibited at PIE Projects in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Russek has exhibited internationally, and is represented in numerous museum collections.

With her husband, David Scheinbaum, she operates Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Scheinbaum & Russek exclusively represent the estates of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, and the Eliot Porter Estate.