Her images raise questions about human effects on the environment and the nature of humankind's complex and contested relationship to the earth.
[5] McPhee is noted for her large-scale photographs of landscapes and portraits of people who live and work in them.
[2] McPhee's work is concerned with place and the ways we define and manage our relationship to the land.
Her first monograph, No Ordinary Land (in collaboration with Virginia Beahan) was published by Aperture in 1998.
[2] McPhee's most recent book, The Home and the World: A View of Calcutta (2014), explores the weight of colonialism through images of the architecture of that city and portraits of passersby.