Perhaps best known for his photographs of Christine Keeler[4] and Joe Orton, Morley began his career with assignments for magazines such as Tatler.
His publicity photographs for the Beyond The Fringe revue (1961) included a study of the cast Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller which was used for the best selling LP Cover of the show.
In 1989 he collaborated with photographs curator Terence Pepper in staging his first museum retrospective at London's National Portrait Gallery and subsequently donated all the images printed for the exhibition as part of a larger archive of his work.
[5] In 2006, an extensive exhibition showcasing 50 years of Lewis Morley work was displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Titled Lewis Morley: 50 Years of Photography, the exhibition included 150 of his works covering fashion, theatre, and reportage, many of which had never been seen before.