Photographer and director Margaret Malandruccolo is shaped by duality — Canadian and American, commercial and personal, instinctive and mathematical. Born an only child to Italian immigrant parents in an automotive heartland, Italian was her first language and remains her first and enduring love. She has carried a camera since the age of nine, developing a sensibility drawn equally to beauty, grit, contradiction and honesty.
With a career spanning photography and film since the mid-1990s, Malandruccolo has collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists and cultural icons. Her work has brought her alongside legendary figures including Prince — for whom she served as tour photographer in 2013 — as well as Danny Elfman, Colm Wilkinson, Dwight Yoakam and many others.
Whether crafting album imagery for musicians, directing feature film work or creating intimate portraiture for artists such as Guillermo del Toro, Olivia Newton-John, and Russell Crowe, she is known for work that reveals emotional truth through a strong cinematic sensibility.
