Maggie Hallahan


Maggie Hallahan is an editorial and advertising photographer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines and contributed to a couple of photography books. In 2004, she founded the multimedia production company and serves as its CEO and director.
Her exhibition State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California was shown at the Oakland Museum of California in 2002.
Hallahan worked with the United Nations Foundation and Roll Back Malaria Partnership in 2011, and the United States Agency for International Development in 2013.

Early life and career

Hallahan attended Reseda High School. Hallahan began working as an advertising and editorial photographer and had her work featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and on Martha Stewart's website. Hallahan worked with the German magazine Focus from 1995 until 1997.
She shot the "Malibu Fire" photo used for the band Hole's 1998 album Celebrity Skin.

Exhibitions

In 2002, Hallahan's 45 photograph solo exhibit, State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California was shown at the Oakland Museum of California.
Hallahan was selected as a photographer in the Rick Smolan produced event America At Home, in which photographers were asked to document home life in 2007.
Hallahan worked with the United Nations Foundation and Roll Back Malaria Partnership to illustrate families and communities directly impacted by Malaria for an exhibition titled Champions to End Malaria in 2011. In 2013, she worked with the United States Agency for International Development on the Malaria initiative.

Publications

In July 2007, Hallahan's photographs from a trip to Iceland were featured in the book Photoshop Lightroom Adventure by Mikkel Aaland.
In 2008, Hallahan's photographic collection on Malaria was included in a book titled What Matters, by David Elliot Cohen.