Maxwell MacKenzie
Maxwell MacKenzie is an American photographer who specializes in architectural, landscape, and aerial photography. Three books feature his landscape and aerial images. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College in Vermont in 1975, studying architecture and photography. Born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, he has worked from Washington, D.C. since the 1980s and lives in Hillsboro, Virginia with his wife, art dealer Rebecca Cross. His commercial and architectural photos have appeared worldwide in books, magazines, and brochures, including more than 500 covers. His landscape work has been widely shown in galleries and museums. His art photographs are part of the permanent collections at U.S. Embassies in Bogota, Abidjan, Conakry, Moscow, Kathmandu, Dushanbe, and Lima. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Washington Post art critic Henry Allen described his landscapes as capturing moments that feel like they come from the distant past, when a farm might be slipping toward ruin.
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