Career
She has worked in Africa, Asia and Europe for The New York Times, Newsweek, Die Welt, Beaux Arts Magazine, Condé Nast, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Carnegie Foundation, the Knight Foundation, Saveur magazine, the Toronto Globe and Mail and other international and Italian publications including la Repubblica, il Messaggero, Corriere della Sera, l’Espresso, Panorama, Gente, Oggi, Capital. McKinnon has worked in collaboration with various humanitarian organizations and United Nations agencies such as United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Population Fund, IDLO, Louisiana Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Africare, and others Her photographic exhibition BORN INVISIBLE, was presented by the Fondazione Edoardo Garrone and inaugurated at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa on February 3, 2011.
A new edition of BORN INVISIBLE was presented in Rome, Italy at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere on June 5, continuing until September 28, 2014.
Photography books:
"The Islands of Italy", photography book published by Houghton and Mifflin in 1992, text by Barbara Grizzutti Harrison. "Anna, Ciro & Compagnia", published by ERI - Radiotelevisione Italiana - Italy 1985.
"On Their Side – Dalla Parte dei Bambini" on the United Nations convention on the rights of the child 1999 for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, Italy. "The Sacred Fire", photo book on Indian Weddings published by Logart, Italy, 2002.
"Invisible Women", sponsored by the City of Rome, Italy, 2006.
"Born Invisible", was presented by the Fondazione Edoardo Garrone at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Italy, February 3, 2011. "BORN INVISIBLE", with English and Italian texts, published by Gangemi Editore, Rome, June 5, 2014.