who is he?

Jordan Morise (b. Sudan, 2003) is a nonbinary portrait photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike most photographers, they do not stick to just one specific type. Though portraiture tends to be the umbrella theme for him, he does not limit himself to just simple portraiture and instead specialises in all kinds such as fashion, street, fine art, surrealistic, and conceptual. They like to use photography as a way to draw attention to the philosophical aspects of the medium and demonstrate the dimensions and interpretations a person can gather from each image. His meaning isn’t always the only meaning that is valid and works with their art — sometimes. the viewer’s interpretation can provide a new meaning to what they create.

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. Coming from a family of phenomenal and inspirational experiences, being born in Khartoum, North Sudan and immigrating to Australia at the age of three, they were still trying to understand the meaning of life itself, let alone what theirs was and what it meant. 

Inspired by masculinity, femininity, and soulfulness, the artworks he creates deal with questions of identity, selfhood, mental health, and emotions through a colourful and/or colourless queer and complicated lens, blending both documentary and fine art approaches. Morise’s work is rooted in nostalgia, fantasy, adventure, creativity, and circumstance, all while remaining fresh and contemporary. 

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