Mackenzie Calle is a freelance photographer and visual storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY.
Her project, The Gay Space Agency, was awarded the 2024 World Press Photo for North & Central America, Open Format, and was a finalist for the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards.
Mackenzie was selected as a Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Fellow in 2022. That same year, she was named one of the Lenscratch 25 to Watch and was shortlisted for the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant. In 2023, she was named as a LensCulture Emerging Talent Award winner and received the Dear Dave Fellowship.
She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Cinema Studies and was awarded the Director’s Fellowship to attend ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program. She was selected to Eddie Adams Workshop class XXXV. Prior to her photography career, she was a photo producer at NBCUniversal.
Her work has been exhibited at Photoville, Pride Photo Festival, and Noorderlicht International Photo Festival.
Clients include National Geographic, The Washington Post, GAYLETTER, Discovery, MSNBC, and The Wall Street Journal.
AWARDS:
2024 AESTHETICA ART PRIZE, Longlisted Artist
2023 DEAR DAVE, Fellowship Winner
EDUCATION:
Eddie Adams Workshop XXXV
International Center of Photography, Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism, Director’s Fellowship
New York University, BA, Cinema Studies
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Regenerate, Group Exhibition, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival
2023 Photoville, Container Exhibition
2023 Pride Photo, Group Exhibition
2022 The Curated Fridge, Group Exhibition
2022 Shifting Selves, Group Exhibition, International Center of Photography
PRESS:
2022 EDITED, OKS Berlin
2022 Shift Magazine, Featured Photographer
