CAMERA OBSCURA | ABELARDO MORELL

Super inspirational.
Work is by Abelardo Morell. This is his awesome website below with beautiful astonishing images:

http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/cameraobsc_01/cameraobsc_01.html

WHO?
Born 1948, Havana, Cuba and is a Boston-based photographer. Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City. Morell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981.

Morell is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing these. Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.

Morell is currently a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He is represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
A documentary on elements of Morell's life and work, Shadow of the House, was released in 2007. (*Text from Wikipedia)

MY THOUGHTS...
Making use of a natural phenomenon, Morell transforms spaces in private, hotel or function rooms into giant camera obscuras. He does this by covering all the windows and doors from natural light but leaving a tiny hole for some to pass through and nature automatically does its magic.

The experience in a room like that tips you over the edge with its projections of the outside world on the walls of the very room, upside down! It is a surreal experience that leaves one fascinated with your extenal surroundings right inside the room. It is a direct representation of reality that engulfs the whole room and uses that space as a frame. This projects us into the notion of reality and fiction, and almost immediately blurs these boundaries. These installations have an effective use of space, texture and evoking the senses to a greater height. That's truely a designed experience!!!

ENJOY IT PEOPLE, JOANNA