Morgan Gwenwald is one of a small group of out lesbian photographers who emerged during the early days of the gay rights movement.  Her work has been featured on many book covers and in newsletters, journals and magazines. Her photographs have been included in many exhibitions, including Art After Stonewall, and Images On Which to Build: 1970s – 1990s. 

Her goal has been to capture the world in which she lives in honest and loving detail. Her move to New York in 1979 started a long-term relationship with the Lesbian Herstory Archives where she still serves as a coordinator. Early on she took up the challenge of portraying the diversity of lesbian sexuality. Her work was featured in the first and subsequent issues of On Our Backs.