Lone Mørch is a Danish author, photographer, and creative producer working at the intersection of embodiment, ecology, story and cultural change. Through visual art, writing, facilitation of creative and nature-based inquiries and events, she explores how we are shaped by the stories we inherit about ourselves and the world, and what becomes possible when those stories begin to loosen.

For more than three decades, she has worked internationally across Europe, the United States and Asia in rural development projects, change agent education, communication and media production. During her years in San Francisco, she photographed more than a thousand women, developing a sustained inquiry into the gaze, representation and authorship. This work became EMBODY: Intimate Photographic Encounters with Women. She is also the author of the memoir Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power and the Sacred. Her TEDx talk, The Power of the Gaze, brought this work to a wider audience.

Her photography and writing have appeared in international publications including The Huffington Post, Barren Magazine and Travellers’ Tales. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Switzerland and Denmark, most recently at Gimsinghoved Kunst- og Kulturcenter and DARK GALLERY in Copenhagen (2026). She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Award for Non-fiction from the San Francisco Foundation and the Silver Solas Award from Travellers’ Tales.

Today she is based in the Southern Danish archipelago.

PÅ DANSK

Lone Mørch er dansk kunstner, fotograf og forfatter og arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem krop, øko-bevidsthed, narrativ og kulturel forandring. Gennem visual kunst, skrivning og facilitering af kreative og natur-baserede forløb og events, udforsker hun hvordan vi formes af de fortællinger, vi arver om os selv og verden, og hvad der bliver muligt, når disse fortællinger begynder at løsne sig.

I mere end tre årtier har hun arbejdet internationalt i Europa, USA og Asien med projekter inden for integrerede udviklingsprojekter, uddannelse af forandringsagenter, kommunikation og medieproduktion. I sine år i San Francisco fotograferede hun mere end tusind kvinder og udviklede herigennem en vedvarende undersøgelse af blikket, repræsentation og retten til egen fortælling. Arbejdet blev til bogen EMBODY: Intimate Photographic Encounters with Women. Hun er desuden forfatter til erindringsværket Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power and the Sacred. Hendes TEDx-talk, The Power of the Gaze, bragte dette arbejde ud til et bredere publikum.

Hendes fotografi og skrivning har været publiceret internationalt, blandt andet i The Huffington Post, Barren Magazine og Travellers’ Tales. Hendes arbejde har været udstillet i USA, Schweiz og Danmark, senest på Gimsinghoved Kunst- og Kulturcenter og DARK GALLERY i København (2026). Hun har modtaget Tanenbaum Award for Non-fiction fra San Francisco Foundation samt Silver Solas Award fra Travellers’ Tales.

Med base i det sydfynske øhav bevæger hendes praksis sig i stigende grad mod landskabet og relationel bevidsthed. Hendes igangværende undersøgelse Earth Mother fortsætter denne bevægelse udad – fra kroppen mod det større levende landskab.

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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.