Lindsay Morris is a photographer best known for documenting events in her personal life with an emphasis on community engagement. Morris received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and discovered her fascination with photography during a yearlong Rotary Exchange program in South Africa. She continued her photographic studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Barbara Crane, The School for International Training, Kenya, and in Ann Arbor, MI with Joanne Leonard.
Morris is a TED Speaker whose talk from TEDWomen 2023 was published in March of 2024. She is an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center Watermill, NY (2024) and a recipient of the NYFA JGS Photography Fellowship (2023). Morris’s work has been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, TIME, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, GEO, Marie Claire, and Elle.
Her works are held in private and public collections including The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, and The Newport Art Museum, RI. Exhibitions include Paris Photo PX3 Award (2023); Leiber Collection, NY, ICP Concerned, NY; The Newport Art Museum, RI; Parrish Art Museum, NY; Hamburg Triennial, Germany; Fotofest, Houston; and Photoville Brooklyn, NY and recent solo exhibitions at Guild Hall Art Museum, East Hampton, NY, Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY and Clamp Art, NY.
She is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp and the upcoming documentary, Mom, I Have Something to Tell You (2024). She published her monograph, You Are You, documenting a summer camp for gender-expansive children in 2015 with Kehrer Verlag.