Extraordinary experiences by Morganna Magee

Issue 142

haunting
adjective
Definition of haunting 

: having qualities (such as sadness or beauty) that linger in the memory : not easily forgotten

Extraordinary experiences uses photography as conduit for emotional interpretation of the reality during a time of turmoil.

There are a set of psychological phenomena that can happen to the bereaved, loosely named Extraordinary Experiences. One of them is a visual apparition of or "seeing" the loved one. These images explore the idea of being haunted by the past, of a reckoning with history and of the eternity of the natural world.

Created in the Australian summer, the images depict a dark exploration of the landscape interspersed with motifs of animals both dead and alive and a portrait of the artist and her father. The images interplay reality with the camera’s is capability to “see” and photography’s ability to make eternal what is fleeting. 

Morganna Magee lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
To view more work, please visit www.morgannamagee.com or follow @morgannamagee