Abelardo Morell moved from Cuba to New York City at age 14. He was introduced to photography at Bowdoin College in Maine, and used the camera to express his feelings about being an immigrant. As a student, Morell was deeply influenced by Robert Frank. He spent the early part of his career working in New York City and Miami as a street photographer. Morell graduated with an M.F.A. from Yale in 1981 and later began teaching at the Massachussetts College of Art in Boston. When Morell’s son was born in 1986, his photography changed radically. He began to produce photographs of domestic objects seen from a child’s perspective. Morell also produced a lot of his work based on camera obscura techniques and early dark room photography, creating whole tents to mirror dark rooms, made to capture landscapes or natural scenery. He often contrasts two ideas or shows surreal worlds with in his photos, something is always slightly conceptual and I like that you feel like there layers of depth to read into about each work.
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My name is Caitlin Jack and as a part of my University paper on photography I wanted to focus on where a displaced group of people find home, choosing to interpret the brief Turangawaewae with the idea of absence of home instead of how you have home with you. I have a passion for social documentary photography and capturing snapshots and expressions that communicate something about someones way of life. This assignment lead me down many research paths and really opened my eyes to a group of people I knew very little about. I am still undecided how I feel about both the compassionate side and the argument that these people put themselves in there situation. Either way however I have seen a very honest point of view on both sides.