Meaghan Ogilvie

Her environmental storytelling has taken her across oceans—from filming Scotland’s 650+ species of seaweed on the Isle of Mull in Scotland to diving in British Columbia’s urchin barrens where kelp forests once thrived. In 2024, she won a trip to Raja Ampat in Indonesia—one of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on Earth—where she documented the region’s fragile coral reefs aboard a liveaboard expedition. Commissioned to write about the journey for PHotoEd Magazine, Tamron Magazine, and the UK-published book The Ocean Speaks, her piece “The Last Paradise” reflected on the alarming degradation of Raja Ampat’s reefs caused by unregulated tourism, pollution, and boat strikes.

Ogilvie was one of 90 women selected globally to sell prints for Vital Impacts in celebration of Dr. Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday, with proceeds supporting the Jane Goodall Institute. She joined eXXpedition Great Lakes—an all-women sailing mission on Lake Ontario—to conduct the region’s largest microplastics sampling, and collaborated with The Seabin Project in Sint Maarten to create ethereal promotional imagery for their ocean-cleaning technology.

Named one of “10 Canadian Photographers You Should Know” alongside Edward Burtynsky and Paul Nicklen, Ogilvie has received multiple awards and has been invited to speak at events including the Creative Minds panel with director Atom Egoyan. She continues to expand her practice from her home base in Toronto.