Ginna McGee Richards lives in North Carolina, and photographs religious ceremonies, childhood rituals, and southern landscapes.

Since 2005, she has photographed altered landscapes of the South Carolina Lowcountry and produced the photographic series, The Inner Passage, documenting what remains of a three-hundred-year-old waterway that was constructed and maintained by enslaved people living along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. In March 2022, Smithsonian Magazine published a feature article with Ginna’s Inner Passage work. Ginna is a 2021 Photojournalism Fellow at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, and a 1985 recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for photojournalism. She is also an attorney specializing in environmental and immigration law. Internationally acclaimed photographer-writer James Estrin and photojournalist Ed Kashi have mentored her work.