synopsis
"Life is not the opposite of death, but a continuum. Evolutionary nature is an engine of mystery- of things we do not and cannot know. Every step is simultaneously an act of destruction and of creation, of life. There is consolation in the fact that we are always living in the ruins of what went before”
Ben Rawlence, The Treeline
Morganna’s work resounds all natural magic of shapes and wildness. Her eye accompanies us to discover the not-said but existing, the hidden but breathing: we go to feel Nature as we feel our veins and systems that live inside us with the same shapes of Nature, as pictures from an ancient Histological medicine book may suggest.
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Publisher : Origini Edizioni
2023
Dimensions : 22 x 29 cm
handcrafted work by Eugenia Koval
250 copies numbered and signed
hard cover, hand bound.
2023
Dimensions : 22 x 29 cm
handcrafted work by Eugenia Koval
250 copies numbered and signed
hard cover, hand bound.
about Morganna Magee
Morganna Magee is 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 explores human relations to the more-than-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways.
In 2022 she published her debut monograph “Extraordinary Experiences” with Tall Poppy Press. The book was nominated for Australian Photobook of the Year, and was listed as one of the photobooks of 2020 by both Gabriela Cendoya and Robin Titchner. Enjoying the process of bookmaking so much, Morganna joined Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne and has since published “Beware of People Who Dislike Cats” in 2023. In addition, “Phenomena” a collaboration with Italian publishing house Origini Edizioni was launched at Polycopies, 2023.
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 regularly 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
Morganna is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, at Swinburne University of Technology and is currently undertaking her Ph.D 'Not Tame Enough' which questions how colonial photographic practices have misrepresented the Kangaroo. She volunteers with Vets for Compassion.
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Publisher : Origini Edizioni
2023
Dimensions : 22 x 29 cm
handcrafted work by Eugenia Koval
250 copies numbered and signed
hard cover, hand bound.
2023
Dimensions : 22 x 29 cm
handcrafted work by Eugenia Koval
250 copies numbered and signed
hard cover, hand bound.