who is he?

Jordan Morise (b. Sudan, 2003) is a nonbinary portrait photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Like many photographers, they do not stick to just one specific type. Specialising in portraiture, Morise’s work is rooted in nostalgia, adventure, and circumstance while remaining fresh and contemporary. They like to use photography to draw attention to the philosophical aspects of the medium and demonstrate the dimensions and interpretations a person can gather from each image.

Morise has exhibited at the RAW: Natural Born Artists, ‘IGNITE’, Showcase (Australia, 2019), and both The Museum of Australian Photography’s TOPshots (Australia, 2021), and Being a Voice (Australia, 2022) Exhibitions. Born in Khartoum, North Sudan, they are inspired by masculinity, femininity, and soulfulness, the artworks he creates deal with questions of identity, selfhood, mental health, culture, and emotions through a colourful and colourless queer and complicated lens, blending both documentary and fine art approaches. 

While his work choreographs relations of things, people, time, light, and space, they are “turning captured moments into lifetime memories.”