Laura Morton is a freelance documentary photographer based in San Francisco. She has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Marie Claire, Newsweek Japan, British Journal of Photography, and 6Mois among many publications.
Much of her personal work deals with wealth and the issues that surround it, such as her award-winning project Wild West Tech. Originally supported by a grant from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the work has been exhibited at the Lumix Festival in Hannover, Germany, at CatchLight’s Status Update show in San Francisco, at FotoFestival Naarden, in Naarden, Netherlands, and was screened at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France, and Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia. Laura is now working on a third chapter of the work.
In 2018, she was awarded the Canon Female Photojournalist Award (AFJ) to produce her latest project University Avenue which went on show at Visa pour l’Image this year.
Silicon Valley, the center of the tech industry, is still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
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