Abelardo Morell keeps sharing âtricks the camera can doâ
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated February 17, 2021, 9:00 a.m.
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Abelardo Morell has spent a lot of time inside cameras. Literally. Often with several other people.
Thirty years ago, the photographer, now 72, was the first artist to shoot the inside of a camera obscura. The work made a name for him, and in the years since, he has built an international reputation on a broad body of work.
Anyone can make a camera obscura. Mask all the light from a room except for a tiny hole in one window shade. Morell did this regularly in classrooms at Massachusetts College of Art, where he taught from 1983 to 2011. An upside-down image of whatever was across Brookline Avenue would stream in and project on the opposite wall.
Picturing the all-American road trip (and its many hazards) for Black drivers
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
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MassArt professor Amani Willett interspersed family snapshots with archival news photography for his new book, A Parallel Road. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
Photographer Amani Willett was documenting former stops on the Underground Railroad when the link to the past hit him. Black Americans still travel almost like fugitives, constantly aware of dangers on the road.
âThe American road trip was always talked about as this ideal of ultimate freedom, the American dream, exuberance,â said Willett, who teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.