Abelardo Morell

 Abelardo Morell is a Boston Based photographer who was originally from Cuba. His works throughout the years of landscapes shown through camera obscuras inside of different rooms are some of his most famous works, some of which I will be looking at.

This first image, taken in 1990 in the Hotel des Grandes Hommes featuring a projection of the Pantheon Hotel. This image on the wall is created not by a digital projector, but by a camera obscura, a small cut of light in a completely blackened room, almost acting as a shutter radius, and projecting an image upon the wall. Usually these images are not very sharp, but Morell may have made his shutter speed a bit longer, allowing his camera to capture more light.

This second image is of another bed room featuring the projection of the Washington bridge. This time however, instead of using a camera obscura, Morell seems to use a projection of an image, as a camera obscura would normally flip the image upside down. There is also the possibility that he actually used mirrors to flip the image right side up too.

This last image is truly fun in my opinion. It is a very crisp looking image of Time Square at night. Using a camera obscura again in a dark room, Morell does an amazing job capturing all the many lights and colors of time square, showing off a vivid display. The image almost looks like something I could fall into, almost like an odd sort of pov shot.