Christine Magdo is a New York City-based photographer. Her work includes self-portraits, still lifes, environmental portraits, landscapes, and street photography.

After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and an MA in Philosophy, Magdo moved to Paris and completed a one-year photography program at Spéos. In 1997, she returned to the United States to attend Harvard Law School and subsequently practiced law for over two decades. In 2022, Magdo retired from full-time law practice and devoted herself to photography.

Magdo’s work exists at the intersection of body, object, and identity. She is fascinated by the complex and often paradoxical ways we attempt to construct meaning and purpose in a consumer-driven culture. Grounded in her academic background in human biology and philosophy, her photography is driven by the question of how to live an authentic life amidst the absurdity of a curated, performative world.

Magdo’s work has appeared at the SE Center for Photography (in the 2025 Contemporary Portrait exhibition juried by Aline Smithson and the 2025 Masks exhibition juried by Bootsy Holler); in Darkrooms Magazine (SPOTLIGHT Issue #2); and as a Lensculture Editor’s Selection (Street Photography Awards, 2025). Her work has also been exhibited at A Photographer’s Place gallery in Durham, NC (in the Doubling Down exhibition, 2025).

Magdo lives in Tribeca with her husband, three teenage children, and a naughty little Havanese dog.

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