Three books have been published containing the landscape[1] and aerial[2] photography of MacKenzie.
MacKenzie received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont in 1975,[3] with a dual major in architecture and photography.
He was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota,[3][4] but has worked out of Washington, D.C. since the 1980s, and is married to art dealer Rebecca Cross.
[6][7] MacKenzie's commercial and architectural photographs[8] have been published in books, magazines and brochures worldwide, including over 500 covers.
MacKenzie’s landscape photographs[9] have been widely exhibited in galleries[10][11][4] and museums[12][13] nationwide, and his art photographs are part of the permanent collections of the American Embassies in Bogota, Colombia, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, Conakry, Guinea, Moscow, Russia, Kathmandu, Nepal, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Lima, Peru.