Newfoundland!

I'm in Newfoundland now, spending 2 weeks at a residency at Full Tilt Creative Centre.

New In Progress Work

A projection of several images I've been shooting over the course of my trip for my zoetrope project.

Some new pinhole images I made during my residency at Roberts Street Social Centre in Halifax.

Exhibition Photos

Sightings Exhibition Up Now!

WHAT: Sightings: An Exhibition of the Photography of Ella Morton WHERE: ViewPoint Gallery of Contemporary Photography 1272 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3J 1Y5 Phone: (902) 420-0854 WHEN: Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 6pm - 9pm Artists’ Talk: Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 2pm - 3:30pm Exhibition run: September 4, 2012 - September 30, 2012 Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 noon - 5pm; Thursday and Friday 12 noon - 7pm; or by appointment Vancouver artist Ella Morton was recognized as one of Canada’s top emerging photographers in this months issue of Photolife magazine. ViewPoint is pleased to present “Sightings,” Morton’s series of staged pinhole photographs depicting scenes of people witnessing mysterious phenomena from UFOs and other unexplainable happenings. http://www.viewpointgallery.ca/

B/W Pinhole Images

Some black and white images for my Sightings series.

Roadtrip!

I am going on an enormous road trip during August, September and October! Anticipated itinerary: Vancouver, BC >> Portland, OR >> Crater Lake, OR >> Craters of the Moon, ID >> Grand Teton, WY >> Yellowstone, WY >> Badlands, SD >> Chicago, IL >> Roller Coasters in Ohio >> Pennsylvania >> New York, NY >> Oh Canada show @ MassMOCA >> Rhode Island >> Some places in New England/Maritimes >> Halifax, NS (art show) >> Cape Breton, NS >> Newfoundland (residency) >> Labrador >> A ghost town, Northern Quebec >> Montreal, QC, >> Toronto, ON >> Unplanned areas along Highway 1 Ontariomanitobasaskatchewanalbertabcawesome >> Vancouver, BC

Zoetrope Project

An upcoming project I will be working on:

Landscape Composites is a series of stop-motion projections created by spinning zoetropes, depicting natural landscapes. The zoetropes will contain 4”x5” sheets of colour transparency film that portray gradual changes in the landscape across North America. I will be shooting these images during a road trip through Canada and the US this summer, from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS. I plan to isolate certain parts of the scenery: the horizon, roads and road signs, both urban and rural. I will shoot these subjects at even intervals over the course of the trip, so as to catalogue the way they change across the continent. Once the film sheets are placed within the zoetropes, there will be a light in the middle of each zoetrope, which will project the film sheets onto the wall. The spinning zoetropes will make the images blend together, creating looping animations of the changes in the scenery as depicted in each image. I was on Pender Island last month and shot a few test images on Fuji Velvia film, which I plan to use for the project:

Here is a mock-up of the three images blended together, emulating what they might look like through the spinning zoetrope: