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Stephanie Morrison

Morrison’s work uses portraits as a tool to acknowledge and examine environmental issues. She has created a series of images considering how humans are responsible for, yet frequently oblivious to, the devastating effect we are having on nature and the environment around us.

She has a particular affinity with countryside, nature and the living environment. This has developed throughout her years of study to become a subject that she is passionate about preserving, to the point where she feels we should strive to reverse the damage we have caused. Man’s concept of progress has little regard for his surroundings with ever increasing building and human infrastructure removing large areas of land for building, roads and retail. She has personally witnessed the destruction of numerous wooded areas in her locality for the ever growing human population.

This increasing human population produces vast amounts of waste which is not always responsibly managed causing detrimental effect to our lands and waters. This is not just caused by the disposal of waste but we are also guilty of multiple deaths by environmental disaster. In the series, models are placed as the victim, putting the human on a par with the flora and fauna that are not viewed by humanity as equals. The attempt to express the feeling of despair and sadness by creating the victim using the man made materials against the fragility of nature. Morrison wanted the models expressions to provoke discussion and possibly feelings of guilt.


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