Mackenzie Calle

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Mackenzie Calle is a photographer and photo producer from Southern California, currently living in Brooklyn. She grew up as an athlete who was passionate about science and television. This led her to 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 2019, inspired by her experience as a closeted queer athlete, she began photographing her still ongoing project, Trans Truth, which centers on transgender athletes across the United States. In 2021, she was awarded the Director’s Fellowship to attend the Documentary Photography and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography. Later in 2021, she began The Gay Space Agency, which reckons with the history of NASA astronauts and the LGBTQ+ community. In 2022, the project was awarded the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Grant.

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