I asked Ben Morris for his story:
“I dropped out of sixth form and ran away to study photography at art college in North Yorkshire. I didn’t tell my parents for 8 months, and just pretended to be going to school every day on the bus. After finishing art college I moved to Paris to assist various photographers and to gain some experience working at magazines. When I was 19 I moved to London to study a degree in fashion photography, which turned out to be a ludicrous mess and was told by Jurgen Teller that I should leave and never come back. Which I did that day. Other than that I just worked really hard, I assisted some photographers, had a crisis at one point with the fashion world and thought I should be doing something more important with photography that fashion work and booked a trip to Bosnia. Now I shoot menswear which I love, Portraits and documentary work – all 3 of which I can merge quite well and don’t have to change the style of my work. I shoot everything on film, digital photography is not photography.”
Ben Morris