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.
Her awards include: Finalist in the Maggie Diaz prize, Finalist in the National Portrait Prize 2013, Finalist 2012, 2016 headon portrait prize, Second Place- children's portrait category International Photography Awards ( Lucies), Px3 Official Selection for 2011 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Commendation Sony World Photography awards, Honourable mention International Photography Awards New York , Finalist Eureka science prize , '25 under 25' Noise + Art and Australia, Black and White Magazines ‘Photo +Art’ .