Honorable Mention
Inner Sanctums #5
DESCRIPTION
I wanted to include a second image from the Inner Sanctums series so you could begin to appreciate how they work as a series...For Chromatic Awards, I wanted to select a series where the color itself was a primary part of the work. This image is #1 in a series of ten. Meditation is a of deep personal interest. Meditation reveals subtle flows of energy within the body. These images are about looking inside, where we are mysterious, flowing and illuminated red. There are hardly any details here, only flows and feelings. By withholding detail I’m interested in capturing the of mystery of embodied, meditative experience.
These abstract macro images started as an experiment on a rainy day. By lighting and photographing the insides of tiny seashells I discovered I could suggest the inner world of the body with its flows, fragility, secret chambers and eroticism.
I imagine printing these images huge and body-size, or as glowing lightboxes, creating a red, immersive, glowing world in a gallery space.
AUTHOR
At age five, Morgan had a chance encounter with a cicada on a hot sidewalk grew into a love of nature and visual storytelling. The suburban borderlands of his hometown presented a rich personal experience of natural world often far more layered and interesting pristine, glossy-magazine version.Morgan is interested in expanding the boundaries of nature & landscape photography, peering into hidden worlds and discovering the beauty in overlooked places. He works in series and layers, seeking out subjects with narrative depth which suggest ancient stories, myths and fairy tales. He creates alternative and site-specific display methods to create an immersive experience.
Morgan works as a cinematographer for feature-length narrative films. The action film Furie (2019) was Vietnam’s most successful film. He earned a ‘Best Cinematography’ award in 2010 for his work on Touch, a family drama set in a Los Angeles nail salon. Other prominent credits include: Level 26 a series for CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; and “Gimme Shelter” (2014) starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Earl Jones.
Before film, he worked as a producer and exhibit developer specializing in interactive science museum exhibitions.
Morgan showed his photographic work in a number of art exhibitions in San Francisco between 1996-2007.
Morgan received a BA in Biology from Harvard College (1994). He had an unofficial minor in photography working under British photographer Chris Killip.
