Rod Morris

I initially studied photo-journalism at LCC and worked for various publications and institutions in the UK and abroad. I moved from photojournalism to film making in 2011 and found that the core concerns regarding visual storytelling, informed both mediums. The influence of cinema has always been present in my photography as I have been beguiled by the language of film throughout my life as an artist.

Still photographs are like vessels, and within the most memorable are references to our own lives and those of others, remembered or imagined. I strive to create images with a narrative that extends beyond the frame. There is often a sense of the protagonist, sometimes directly by their presence in a suggested drama, but in others, by their absence from a scene, stage or set.

Cinema and photography play with our relationship of the concept of time, in some ways reinforcing its linear nature, in others, disrupting this flow and offering up countless eventualities more akin to a quantum view of the universe.

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