Abelardo Morell

 Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. He attended the college of Bowdoin and got his MFA from Yale University School of Art. He later in life was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston from 1983-2010.

One of his works that really stood out to me was this one below:

 I like this work because it portrays a city, but it is being shown upside down on the wall. I assume he did this by using a camera obscura-- a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. I like how the city scape takes up the entire wall. I think have the chairs and table is interesting too because it makes it feel like you are sitting there enjoying the city view. I think it was an interesting choice to make the city upside down though, because I know it can be upright too when using a camera obscura. 

Another photo of his that stood out to me was this one below:

I can tell that Morell was very interested in using a camera obscura. But it is the objects and screen in which he uses it to make these photographs interesting. This photo seems to be done in Washington D.C. He must have made a camera obscura in his hotel room (which this seems to be a hotel room) and I think that is so interesting. I like the setting and I like how he consciously picks certain areas to take these photographs. The objects in the room also create a different feeling and vibe to them with what he is doing with the camera obscura as well. 

Over all, I really like his photographs and I think they are all interesting.