Jonna McKone
Jonna McKone is a photographer, filmmaker and freelance producer and director based in Baltimore, Maryland. Spanning video, large format photography and alternative processes, her work explores the connections between land, power, and communities. She is currently working on a project that explores land use histories in the mid-Atlantic. She recently was a fellow at the Center for Documentary Studies where she developed a collaborative photography project which will be published as a photobook in the fall of 2021. Her work has shown in film festivals, galleries and museums and has been supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Artist Grant, the Metropolitan Visual Arts Center, Skidmore’s Storytellers’ Institute, the Lewis Hine Fellowship, and the National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
During her residency Jonna made site-based exposures using her large format camera and the lumen process in landscapes and terrains that bear histories of resource extraction. She also began work researching a new film and conducted research for her on-going photography project, Slow Drift. Her work explores the permeability of the land and weather with the body and identity, the storytelling process and the material intersection photography and place. With the PlatteForum interns, she embarked on a number of field studies ranging from cloud studies, to personal, room diaries, to a site visit to a former mining site. She also made portraits with some interns in a location unique to them.
Jonna McKone: Film, photography
Residency Period: April 6 - May 20, 2021
the bluest sky Exhibition Opening: May 20, 2021
ArtMoves Podcast: Listen on Soundcloud
In this episode bio artist and sculptor, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and photographer, filmmaker and producer Jonna McKone muse about nature, bugs, trees and changing landscapes, touching on the lingering effects of colonialism on our environment.
