darrellmorris's Profile

A fine selection of grainy slightly unfocused images, and the occasional musings on the state of the world. Don't be put off it's not going to be as bad as it sounds. Originally the page was to be used as a site for picture editors, galleries, newspapers, etc to view my work, while I updated my official site (currently offline) But all has changed and I now simply update for the pleasure of a few friends. If you've come here by mistake, please stay awhile and hopefully enjoy. Or you could go to either of the galleries below.

Darrell x


http://www.fotolog.com/reportage
http://www.fotolog.com/londoncarnival


Mini Bio -

Channel 4 Yr1 Project (2000)
Shrewsbury Artsfest (2000, 2002, 2004)
Black & White Exhibition, Shrewsbury (2003)
Oxford Times Photographer of the Year Award (2003)
Notting Hill Carnival (2004)
Speakers Corner Exhibition, Ludlow (2004)
Speakers Corner Exhibtion, Shrewsbury (2005)
Chinese New Year, London (2005)
Art In Mind Exhibition, Hoxton London (2006)
Notting Hill Carnival, Official Website Photographer (2006)
Birmingham Artsfest (2006)
Sp/ark exhibition, Wolverhampton (2007)

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West Dulwich, London, City of, United Kingdom

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slightlyoutoffocusphotoswithafilmcamera

• Reportage
• London Carnival

August 14, 2007

I'm far too shy and retiring to let you know what my photos are all about. I'll let you be the judge of the work, and if you come back and say you see a bit of Robert Capa or Henri Cartier-Bresson in there, I won't be offended. I live in hope.....

• Nikon f65 (Film)
• Olympus Trip 35 (Film)
• Pentax ME Super (Film)
• Nikon FM (Film)
• Nikon f75 (Film)

Eclectic to pretty eclectic... Lots of Folky-Wolky acoustic types sat in Greenwich Village lofts from Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel and Nico... Or in barns in North Carolina James Taylor... Or in bedsits in L.A. Elliott Smith... Or profound types in Parisian arrondismonts such as Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy or Jacques Brel... Mid-60's R&B to Mid 70's Soul (with dance routines) think Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, Tammi Terrell, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Supremes, Booker T and the M.G.'s, Issac Hayes, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Floyd... Random Indie inc early Hip-Hop, New Wave etc (fringes optional) The Smiths, Pavement, Teenage Fanclub, Beth Orton, Belle and Sebastian, Air, Plus-Tech Squeezebox, The Jam, The Clash, Blondie, Isobel Campbell, (early) Blur, (early) REM, Pulp, Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul, Joy Division, Gil Scott-Heron... Jazz (optional goatee and beret) John Coltrane, Theolonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Modern Jazz Quartet, Nina Simone... Cool cats who can carry a tune and drink at the same time... Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jnr, Peggy Lee... Throw-in some 60's pop, old-school reggae, ska, some electronic, world music and a bit of classical... And voila! Still too many more to mention..

TV - lots of US comedies think Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Flight Of The Conchords, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report... Lots of BBC4 comedies, documentaries, art & music, Sky Arts and Brit comedies Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, Black Books, Brass Eye, Hancock... Lots of Radio 4 too... Films - Lots of 40's Brit Noir think Brighton Rock, 60's pyschedelia think Blow-Up, Performance... Ealing comedies Passport to Pimlico, Lavender Hill Mob... Erm, the odd musical Funny Face, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg... The Producers (60's edition), Sideways, Withnail & I, Wonder Boys, The Odd Couple, Some Like It Hot, Roman Holiday, Amelie, A Bout De Souffle, Before Sunrise... Again there's far too many to remember... What No Room For Books??!! Slightly Out Of Focus - Robert Capa, Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan London - Peter Ackroyd On The Road - Jack Kerouac Biographies, travel books, massive art and photo books... Shakespeare, EM Forster, Dickens, Chaucer... All sit on my shelves and one day I'll get around to reading them... ;-)

I'm far too lazy and prone to injury to try anything myself, except for Cycling where I used to be pretty good, but now reduced to looking like Morrissey in a Smiths video riding around Salford . Instead, I Keep in some kinda shape by walking around taking photos. Football used to be good, but it's a bit rubbish now, it's gone middle-class. Cricket should be England's national pastime. Eight hours in the outdoors of a untraditionally warm British summer, with a good drink, and some fine food watching other people run around (or not). Ahh Bliss....

• London Carnival
• Reportage