His name is Abelardo Morell. He is one of the best photographer I have ever knew, introduced by my lecturer. A photographer who uses the natural light and the surroundings as his subject. He is well known in the photographic community for creating camera obscura images in various places around the world and photographing these. A Boston based photographer but was born in Cuba. I really love his unique approach. Very abstract and imaginative, as if we are in a magical land. He turns the darkened room into a magical landscape. He used to block all the possible sunlight with black plastic, making the space as dark as a cave, cut a dime-size hole in the material so that the light will pass through. The image formed will be inverted. The camera obscura received images just like a human eye, through the small opening and upside down. Light from outside enters the hole at an angle, the rays reflected from tops of objects, like trees, coursing downward, and those from the lower plane, say flowers, traveling upward, the rays crossing inside the dark space and forming an inverted image. I really admired his creativity and technique. Something different. I might want to give it a try one day.
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