Ray Mortenson (born 1944) is an American artist photographer who has been documenting the metropolitan corridor of the US' northeastern landscape since the late 1970s. Mortenson is best known for his black and white photographs of the industrial tidal marshes in the New Jersey Meadowlands and abandoned buildings in The Bronx, taken in the early 1980s. His work is in the permanent collections of a number of important institutions and has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1981.