Mackenzie Calle is a photographer from Southern California, currently based in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she majored in Cinema Studies and was a member of the school’s volleyball team. For over five years she worked for NBCUniversal as a photo producer, editor, and photographer across networks including NBC, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, and NBC News. In 2021, she was awarded the Director’s Fellowship to attend the Documentary Photography and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography.
In 2022, her project The Gay Space Agency, was awarded the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Grant and was shortlisted for the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant. The project reckons with the history of the American space program, the astronaut corp., and the LGBTQ+ community.
AWARDS:
2022 Counter Histories Grantee, Magnum Foundation
2022 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, Shortlist
2022 Honorable Mention, Lenscratch Student Prize
2021 Director’s Fellowship, International Center of Photography
EDUCATION:
Eddie Adams Workshop XXXV
Documentary Photography & Visual Journalism, International Center of Photography
BA, Cinema Studies, New York University
PRESS/EXHIBITIONS/NEWS:
2023 New York Portfolio Review
2023 Pride Photo Exhibition
2022 The Curated Fridge
2022 EDITED, OKS Berlin
2022 Lenscratch: 25 to Watch
2022 Shift Magazine, Featured Photographer
2022 PhMuseum Featured Story
2022 Shifting Selves, Group Exhibition, International Center of Photography
MackenzieCalle4@gmail.com
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