About

Michaela Ottone is a queer interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her photography examines community, identity, belonging, intimacy, and vulnerability, through the lens of her late neurodivergent diagnosis. This manifests through candid, long form, expanded documentary photography, made exclusively on film. Working from a decolonial feminist lens, she endeavours to empower others through collaborative image making, and hopefully in the future, through community photography workshops. Michaela makes prints, photobooks and personal projects about what she loves, to raise awareness of issues that are important to her, and to increase the accessibility of art to a wider audience. Michaela graduated from Photography Studies College in 2025, majoring in photojournalism. She is currently available for documentary, performance, events, family photography, portraits, editorial, campaigns, advertising, and commissions. Image by Tony Corry.