Melissa Renwick is a portrait and documentary photographer who has found home on the Canadian west coast, in Tofino. She is interested in documenting the complicated interrelationship between the coastal landscape and those who inhabit it. Through her intimate style of portraiture and long-term storytelling, she aims to capture the different ways people live in remote regions of the country.

Renwick’s work has been exhibited internationally and been recognized by The Magenta Foundation, FotoFilmic and The Canadian Online Publishing Awards. She is a co-recipient of the 2019 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, a recipient of the 2020 Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Grant and received the 2024 Trebek Initiative Grant.

She has been a contributing photographer to The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s Magazine, and the Toronto Star, where she worked as a staff photographer. 

She is available for assignments near and far. 

melissaMrenwick@gmail.com
1-416-436-4277