Megan Manning

biography

My creative journey has travelled through writing, acting, tap dancing, singing, photography, and film making. I was born in San Francisco, but moved to Europe at two and grew up in a small town in England where I attended a rather unique boarding school called Summerhill. I moved back to California for High School, and then to San Francisco, where I died my hair orange and went to film school.

I studied photography and film making at various establishments and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Film/Animation. I now live on Salt Spring Island, on the beautiful west coast of Canada.

Megan exhibits her photo based art regularly on Salt Spring Island. As a cultural documenter, her videos and photos can be seen online, links below.

where to see or read more

shows: 'Myriad' photographs are on display at the SWOVA office in Upper Ganges.
344 Lower Ganges Rd, SSI (open Mon - Thurs 9-5)

web: meganmanningphotography.weebly.com/ megan's website
www.saatchionline.com/megan59 for her saatchi page
www.saltspringjapanesegarden.com a video of the Heiwa Garden opening.
videos on the SWOVA website
Cultural documentation photos seen on Salt Spring Arts Council website and newsletter

press: Megan's work has been published in numerous brochures, newspapers and publicity packages including the Gulf Islands Driftwood.

documents: documents shared by the artist for further reading

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Walk Down Isabella

click on the document at left to read a short story by Megan Manning

contact the artist

email: manningburton@gmail.com

artist statement

I received my first camera at age 14 and have been taking photographs of the strange and wonderful world I see ever since. In my 28 years as a freelance photographer, my work has included publicity shots for actors and musicians; performances; film shoots; product photography and exotic architecture. I like photographing people. I have a knack for capturing images of people that show a hidden side. I am also fascinated by crumbling buildings, doorways, old castles and places where nature has re-instated itself. In 2000, I travelled to Kosovo to photograph a project which helped the people to rebuild houses that were destroyed or damaged in the Balkan war.

I have been writing stories since I was a child where I spent a lot of time in my fantasy worlds full of dragons and elves. I have had stories and articles published and am currently working on a novel which I started when I was six.

Megan Manning

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