Hello! This website serves as a portfolio to share my freelance photographic work and my artistic projects.

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Liam Mackenzie is a multidisciplinary artist who creates using photography, videography, fashion, drag, and physical fabrication. The frequent elements in his work are camp, maximalism, nature, humour, and decay. The two main motifs that Liam tends to use to explore the preservation and celebration of queerness and disability and the cultural relationship between bodies, gender, and sex. Liam is drawn to strong graphic elements, flamboyancy, and eccentricity.

Liam has a diploma in Photographic Technology from NAIT and a degree in New Media, minoring in Disability Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. Liam has worked as a freelance photographer and artist in Edmonton from 2017 to 2020. Liam has created a couple of projects from an ever-growing series of self-portraits titled Familiar Faces, and a series of film portraits of queer and trans people in Edmonton, titled Preserve Us. He has worked with clients such as Freddie and The Sport Network, and has exhibited works throughout Canada. Notably, Liam has won Special Interest Winner for Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward competition for his Familiar Faces project in 2019. Liam decided to further his education by pursuing New Media, where he focused on using learning new artistic forms to aid his storytelling. From this degree, Liam developed a passion for physical fabrication, videography, and disability justice, which all feed into his practice. In his degree, Liam had the opportunity to study abroad in London, England, at the University of Westminster and created two projects called LAST TIME and Hagstone. This experience has taught Liam how filth and disability are heavily interwoven with each other, and how time can be a malleable embodiment of fear and rejection. For Liam’s thesis project, The Disabling, he uses an assemblage of a majority of his studies to create a body of work to explore disability, sexuality, and the social perceptions of both.

Liam is currently in Toronto.

​April 2025 | Metamorphosis, New Media Thesis Showcase (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

April 2025 | Sorry Salon, Sorry Studios (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

March 2025 | SNAP Auction, ACT Toronto (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

October 2024 | Anastomosis, Podium Gallery (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

April 2024 | Photography in Context; University of Westminster (Exhibiting Artist) | London, England

March 2024 | SNAP Experience & Silent Auction, ACT Toronto (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

March 2024 | Scratching (Into), Podium Gallery (Exhibiting Artist) | Toronto, ON

February 2023 | WEAVE/WIRED; Assembly Gallery (Curator) | Toronto, ON

August 2021 | SUPERSPREADER; Latitude 53 Gallery (Exhibiting Artist) | Edmonton, AB

May 2021 | Way Out West; Edify (Publication) | Edmonton, AB

February 2021 | Emerging Photographers Showcase; Exposure Festival (Exhibiting Artist) | Calgary, AB

January 2021 | Report in Business; Globe and Mail (Publication) | Calgary, AB

May 2020 | Issue #011; SEITIES (Publication) | Calgary, AB

September 2020 | Portraiture Issue; PhotoED (Publication) | Toronto, ON

November 2019 | Flash Forward; Category Winner, Magenta Foundation (Competition) | Toronto, ON

July 2017 | Photography; Glass Buffalo (Publication) | Edmonton, AB