Aaron McDonald.
Photographer.

Aaron McDonald is a photographer and architect, whose
photography practice has grown out of his architectural background and training. Studying at the University of Chicago (B.A. 1989) and then at Yale University (M. Arch. 1992), Mr. McDonald’s photography interests began with assignments for college newspapers.

Since then, Mr. McDonald has won awards such as a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where he created a series of photographs of Rome as if submerged by a flood, as an exploration of an apocalyptic medieval legend. His current photographic series explores the architecture of Italy and of China, locations of his recent architectural commissions. He is currently working on a photographic book on contemporary Shanghai. Mr. McDonald’s work has been exhibited in New York, Montreal, Los Angeles, Venice, and Washington, D. C.