Extraordinary Experiences with Morganna Magee
Extraordinary Experiences with Morganna Magee
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, June 14th, at 7 pm EDT
Morganna Magee’s photography practice sits between storytelling and expanded documentary where emotionally poignant moments become personal meditations on the beauty of melancholy.
In her book Extraordinary Experiences, Morganna explores the supersensory phenomenon that arises during bereavement where grief and loss are made tangible as emotions, memories, and dreams that she embeds in her photographs.
Robin Titchner said of Morganna’s book, “as we pick our way along Magee’s pathway through the book, an air of melancholy hangs thickly over the proceedings. Landscapes are rendered mystical, ethereal in their representation. Blurs and flares - distractions and imperfections - each made beautiful, necessary even, an integral component of the dialogue. Every step provides reminders of mortality and the inevitability of life's cycle from birth to death and beyond."
Together we will explore the myriad ways that photography can take us to the mystical, primal, and sublime edges of everyday existence while simultaneously granting us solace and acceptance of our own mortality.
Morganna Magee is a based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice sits between storytelling and expanded documentary, creating work that pulls from an emotional response to the world whilst still being based in the documentary tradition. Her work has been awarded and exhibited both nationally and internationally recognised by institutions such as The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week. She is part of Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne. She regularly is commissioned for editorial and large-scale community arts projects.
Her images have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Age, Art and Australia magazine amongst others
She has photographed major commissions for The New York Times Magazine, 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 is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, Swinburne University of Technology.