Morganna Magee is an Australian social documentary photographer and educator based in Melbourne,Victoria. Morganna’s work centres around long term projects in which the relationship between photographer and subject challenge the traditional notion of the impartial gaze of the photographer. To date her personal work has explored the issues and complexities around disability, grief and womanhood. Morganna is a founding member of Lumina Collective.
Her images have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Age, The Big Issue, The Weekend Australian magazine, Art and Australia magazine, Broadly,com, Wooden toy Quarterly, Lostateminor, and Black and White Magazine.
She has photographed major commissions for Wintringham Specialist aged care, the shire of Murrundindi, Victoria Police, the Mission for Seafarers, Ronald McDonald House and The Immerse Arts Festival among others. Morganna lectures in Photo Imaging at Swinburne University of Technology.
Exhibitions
2010 - Group Show "Beyond Age" commissioned by the shire of Murrundindi
2011 -Work screened at Federation Square Melbourne as part of the "Strip Billboard"public art project
2012 - Solo show"Motherhood" held at 45 Downstairs Gallery.
2012 - "A place for Us: Portraits of Wintringham" at FootscrayCommunity Arts Centre
2012 - NationalPortrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery
2014 - “I thought it would be perfect” Associate Artist Head On photo festival.
2015 - “Life in the House” Monash Gallery of Art RAMP space
2015 - PictureThis: New Orleans- projection as part of Mary Ellen Mark CNN show GovernorsIsland NYC
2016 - ContactSheet Gallery- (un) known identity.
2016 - Projection at Singapore International PhotoFestival in conjunction with Magnum Workshop.
2017- Black Eye Gallery “Lumina” launch Exhibition
2018- Lumina paste up exhibition series- nationalinitiative
2018 “ The Vandals” Group show MilanoPhoto Week
2018- Family of No Man, Arles France
2018- “ The Family Mantle” Bundoora Homestead
2018-‘ Echoes’ Art Gallery of Ballarat
2019- Counihan Gallery
2019- Pingyao International Photo Festival China
2019- Queensland College of the Arts Gallery
Education
2005 - Diploma of Visual Arts(Photography) NMIT
2018- MA Photography RMIT
Achievements
2006 - Art in Australia Magazine 25 under 25 award for Australia’s top artists under the age of 25.
2006 - Black and White Magazines ‘Photo +Art’ award.
2009 - Finalist Eureka science prize
2010 - Honourable mention International Photography Awards New York
2011- PX3 official selection Prix de la Photography Paris
2011 – 2nd place Children’s category International Photography Awards New York
2012 - Finalist Head On portrait prize
2013 - Finalist National Portrait prize
2015 - Finalist Maggie Diaz Prize
2016 - Finalist Head On portrait prize
2016- founding member Lumina Collective
2017- Semi Finalist Moran Photographic Prize
2018- Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award
2019-Finalist Clip awards Perth Centre for Photography
I am an uninvited guest on unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I offer my deepest respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE ABORIGINAL LAND