I am a Brooklyn-based photographer, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of identity, memory, and witness. My work centers Black life, maternal lineage, and the quiet complexity of who we are to one another.
Behind the lens, I am drawn to the narrative beneath the image — how someone came to be, what they carry, what they are becoming. Photography, for me, is not extraction. It is an act of intentional presence: to witness without looking away, to hold space for the full weight of a life. My work is intimate by design.
My identities as a mother, daughter, child of immigrants, and Black woman are not context — they are the work itself. These layered selves inform a practice rooted in celebration, inquiry, and deep respect for the communities I move through and belong to.
I bring over twenty years of experience in arts administration, community organizing, and grantmaking to my studio practice. I am completing my BA in Studio Art at Hunter College, where I serve as a Darkroom Assistant and Research Assistant in the Art Department. My current body of work, Syncretic Memory, draws on self-portraiture and maternal lineage to explore grief, inheritance, and the archive of the body.
Morgan Cousins Studio offers portrait sessions, workshops, editorial work, and fine art prints — all grounded in the same ethic: that to be truly seen is a form of healing.