Lone Mørch is a Danish photographer, author, and creative facilitator working at the intersection of art, body, ecology, and cultural change. Her practice moves between the personal and the political, where lived experience, perception, and narrative shape how we understand ourselves and the world.
For more than three decades of working internationally across Europe, the United States, and Asia, she has gathered nuanced perspectives on how personal lives, collective narratives, and power structures shape one another. Her work revolves around thresholds—the in-between spaces where identity loosens, familiar narratives let go, and other ways of seeing begin to take shape.
Her years in San Francisco, where she photographed over a thousand women, continue to inform her work. These encounters, centered on intimate portraiture and women’s stories, are gathered in her book EMBODY. She is also the author of Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power and the Sacred, and her TEDx talk The Power of the Gaze introduced her work to a wider audience. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and featured in a range of international publications.
She lives in Denmark, where her current art project focuses on narrative repair and renewed relationships with the living world.
PÅ DANSK
Lone Mørch er en dansk fotograf, forfatter og kreativ facilitator, der arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem kunst, krop, økologi og kulturel forandring. Hendes praksis bevæger sig mellem det personlige og det politiske, hvor levet erfaring, opfattelse og fortælling former, hvordan vi forstår os selv og verden.
I mere end tre årtier med internationalt arbejde på tværs af Europa, USA og Asien har hun samlet nuancerede perspektiver på, hvordan personlige liv, kollektive fortællinger og magtstrukturer former hinanden. Hendes arbejde kredser om tærskler – de mellemrum, hvor identitet løsner, velkendte fortællinger slipper grebet, og andre måder at se på begynder at tage form.
Hendes år i San Francisco, hvor hun fotografede over tusind kvinder, præger stadig hendes arbejde. Disse møder, centreret om intime portrætter og kvindelig erfaring, er samlet i hendes bog EMBODY. Hun er også forfatter til Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power and the Sacred, og hendes TEDx-foredrag The Power of the Gaze introducererede hendes arbejde for et bredere publikum. Hendes værker er udstillet i USA og Europa og har været omtalt i en række internationale publikationer.
Hun bor i Den Sydfynske Øhav.
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Selected Exhibitions
Unwritten: A Record of Resistance, DISIR and DARK GALLERY Copenhagen, March 8, 2026.
KvindeBlik – Kroppen som Kraftfelt, Gimsing Kultur og Kunst Center, Denmark 2026
Kom, Se, Mærk (Come, See, Feel), Photographic Center Kalejdoskop, Svendborg 2023
Femi Festival, Odense – Female Variations 2023
Monday Studios, Copenhagen 2019
Dream Girls Art Show, Mina Dredsen Gallery, San Francisco 2012
Vevey Ville D’images, Switzerland, Curated by Peter Scholl 2011
Imagining Ourselves, International Museum for Women 2008
Hotel des Arts & SF Faces, City Hall, San Francisco, Curated Start Soma 2007
Belle de Jour, Castro Theatre, Curated by Lost Art 2007
Books (Authored)
Embody: Intimate Photographic Encounters with Women
Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power and the Sacred
Anthology Contributions
Det Levende Parforhold (Seidelfaden, Imago Institut, DK)
To Nepal With Love
Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me God
Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong
Essays & Photo Essays (Authored)
Shooting Men, Barren Magazine
Light Journal, photo essay
Embody, Common Ground Magazine
The Naked Self, Invoke Magazine
Forget Perfect, Huffington Post
Thank God For the War, Travelers Tales
Project Kærlighed, Nova (Danish magazine)
Vipassana – I konfrontation med mig selv, Nyt Aspekt
Der er onde ånder i komfuret, Samvirke
Awards & Recognition
Tanenbaum Award for Non-fiction, San Francisco Foundation
Silver Solas Award, Travelers Tales
Honorary Mentions: Writers Digest, San Francisco Book Festival
Bronze Medal, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards
Features & Interviews (About My Work)
Frøkjær & Forfatterne, Jyllandsposten Podcast
Flaskens Ånd, podcast samtale med Poul Pilegaard
Marin Independent Journal – Photographer’s Book Helps Women Reclaim Their Sexuality
BT Weekend – Kvinder, slut fred med jer selv
Aarhus Stiften – coverage of Embody
DR Radio & TV – photographer discussion on women’s sexuality
Søndagsbladet – What Life Has Taught Me
San Francisco Chronicle, InStyle, East Bay Express, People’s Magazine, Professional Photographer, Cosmopolitan, 7x7, etc.
