who is he?

Jordan Morise (b. Sudan, 2003) is a transmasculine, nonbinary photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Specialising in portraiture, Morise’s works are rooted in nostalgia, identity, queerness, and culture while remaining fresh and contemporary.

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

Through his use of photography and choreographic relations of people to things, time, light, and space, they “turn captured moments into lifetime memories,” by drawing attention to the philosophical aspects of the medium.