MY STORY
I would like to acknowledge with gratitude that the land on which I live, work and play is located on the unceded and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Lorna’s wanderlust as a child was fueled by whimsical family adventures with her Dad.
Daydreaming of sparkling oceans, Lorna left Scotland, after studying architecture at Glasgow School of Art, to explore sunnier lands. Always travelling with a camera, happenstance threw her into the world of visual storytelling.
A sucker for Romeo and Juliet, she was thrilled to work on Baz Luhrmann's epic 'Australia' as her inaugural feature film. Combining her love for adventure and film, she camped under the stars in the Australian outback, and then back in the film studios she was thrown into Visual Effects, where she worked alongside great directors and cinematographers creating magic on the film set. Lorna's film resume includes Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, J Edgar Hoover and The Night Manager.
Four continents, and many serendipitous journeys later, Lorna is a photographer and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Her photographic practice, influenced strongly by her work in feature film, is primarily focused on the magic in the everyday.
Lorna's photographs have been used in press publications, feature films, and by charitable organizations. Awards include a BAFTA nomination, multiple IPA honorable mentions and title of ‘Honorary Colour Master’ for this year’s International Colour Awards. Her work has been exhibited by Lens Culture, she was a contributor to 'These Days - Works in Isolation', an international group exhibition documenting our time in lockdown, and her work was recently exhibited at the Foley Gallery in New York.
Lorna’s short documentary film ‘ Dear Elizabeth’ is currently playing in the film festival circuit.
'Looking through the lense helps me express myself, and there is nothing I like more than following my curiosity, intuition and love of people.'
CLIENTS:
BBC Natural History, SBS, Pique Newsmagazine Hikkaduwa Area Relief Fund, Project Galle, Bluebolt, Moving Picture Company, Encore, Fox Searchlight, Warner Brothers, Zoic Studios, Method Studios, Brightlight Pictures, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures
SELECTED FILMS:
Prehistoric Planet, Women of Marwencol, Serenity, Entebbe, Solutrean, War Machine, Morgan, The Night Manager, Ali and Nino, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, J Edgar Hoover, The Chronicles of Narnia- Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Australia
CONTACT:
carmichael.lorna@gmail.com
current location: Vancouver, Canada