Alex Ellinghausen (b. 1982) is an editorial photographer with Fairfax Media. He has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery since 2010, filing for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review. Ellinghausen was the 2018 Press Gallery Journalist of the Year, the first photographer to have won this award. His other accolades include Nikon-Walkley awards, the Kennedy awards and the Quill awards. Ellinghausen has twice been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, in 2015 and 2018.