LISA SORGINI is an Australian-Italian photographic artist based on Bundjalung Country in northern New South Wales. Her work explores themes of caregiving, memory, familial relationships, and the invisible labor of domestic life. Through an intuitive and painterly approach, Sorgini seeks to illuminate the tender and often unspoken spaces where love, loss, and resilience intersect.

She first gained international attention with Behind Glass (Libraryman, 2021), a photographic series conceived during the COVID-19 lockdown. Shot through home windows, these portraits of mothers and children evoke both intimacy and isolation, transforming ordinary moments into luminous, timeless compositions. The project has been described as a poetic meditation on the complexities of caregiving during a time of global uncertainty.

Other long-form bodies of work include In Passing, which traces the intertwined experiences of giving birth to her son while mourning her mother’s death, and Mother, a broader exploration of motherhood’s layered emotional landscape.

Sorgini’s photographs have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne), Les Rencontres d’Arles, and the V&A Museum (London). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, Creative Review, and National Geographic, among other publications.

She has received numerous recognitions, including the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award, the Lucie Awards Portrait Project, and selection as a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.

In her own words, Sorgini is drawn to making "the unseen seen," inviting viewers to contemplate the quiet strength, vulnerability, and complexity of caregiving. Her images resonate as acts of empathy and resistance, reminding us that the most intimate corners of life are also spaces of profound social significance.

More of Sorgini’s work may be appreciated on her website and IG account.