Born in Durban. In 1982 Mckenzie studied towards a Diploma in Photography at the Technikon Natal followed by an internship at the Sunday Tribune. He was a co-founder of the photo collective Afrapix agency under the auspices of the South African Council of Churches and the chief photographer for Drum Magazine until the late eighties before going free-lance. He was also the co-ordinator and facilitator of the photojournalism department at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism from 1996 to 1999. 

Mckenzie has published and exhibited both locally and internationally, he most recently exhibited in Marseille-France in May 1999, Cape Town- Annual Festival of Photography, Pretoria in 2000 and Guyana, South America 2001.

He curated the work of 5 South African photographers at the bi-annual "Recontres de la Photographie Africaine" in Bamako, Mali, December 1998.

Personal projects

• Explore and celebrate the diversity of the Indian and Coloured communities in Durban (recipient of National Arts Council award).
• Documentation of Polisario refugee camps in Southern Algeria
• Photographer/ Art director of the project "Every Child is My Child". This was a commission from the Presidents Office and included the work of 12 South African photographers.
• Co-ordinated the refugee photographic project "Sutra" for the Human Rights Commission.

He has recently been appointed Johannesburg photo chief of the pan-African news/feature agency Panapress.

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