ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 6:
(Chapter 6 of 13, Running Time: 00:12:26)
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Chapter 6 Synopsis:
- Photographer, Graham Henderson, treated her like all other employees and was very generous.
- There were 4 studios, learnt how to light a room.
- Would get everything set up for photographers, did work in studio and on location.
- Setup was just like a film studio, only once made mistake of pouring water down false sink.
- Used a 10x8 camera.
- Did own photographs on sets that had been finished with, photographed friends and models.
- Preferred to photograph 'ugly' rather than 'beautiful'.
- Later worked with photographer Tim O'Sullivan, more gritty portraiture.
- Having made contacts set up as independent photographer.
- Had an agent.
- If you work for free you will be exploited and not get the opportunities.
- Became intolerant of poor direction and working with weak ideas.
- Bad experience of commercial photography reason she now takes her own pictures and appears in them.
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