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Margaret Malandruccolo is a Canadian photographer and music video director primarily living in Los Angeles who specializes in portraiture, album photography, and fashion photography. She has directed over a hundred music videos and has won two Juno Awards and four CCMA Awards. [1]

She has done photography for multiple books, commercials, and musical albums including Stephen Fearing's That's How I Walk (2002), Your Man (2006) by Josh Turner, Edge of Day (2007) by Jimmy Rankin, Get Me Some (2000) by The Jeff Healey Band, 1UP! (2009) by illScarlett, A Place Called Love (2010) by Johnny Reid, and Some People Change (2006) by Montgomery Gentry.

She won Album Design of the Year along with Marina Dempster, Nelson Garcia, and Steve Goode, at the Juno Awards of 2003 for Exit (2002) by k-os. She was one of the photographers for the album Tangents: The Tea Party Collection (2001), which won a Best Album Design award at the Juno Awards of 2001. In 1999 she was nominated, along with David Ashcroft and Ivan Otis for a Best Album Design at the Juno Awards of 1999 for the album Three Seeds by New Meanies. In 2000 she was nominated, along with Garnet Armstrong, Mark Bartkiw, and Amo3ba Corp, for a Best Album Design on the album Blue Green Orange by I Mother Earth.

She has directed music videos including:

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