Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary artist widely known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and then capturing the marriage of interior and exterior in large format photographs.

He is also known for his 'tent-camera,' a device he invented to merge landscapes with the texture and composition of the ground where he places his camera and tripod to record the simultaneity of close and far, majestic and mundane.

Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City.

Morell served as a professor (now emeritus) of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art.

[1] A documentary on elements of Morell's life and work, Shadow of the House, was released in 2007.