Artist Bio
Thomas Morgan began his journey as a photographer the same way many of his peers did: with a camera passed down or gifted by his parents. Something not terribly expensive but with good glass and simple operations. His was a Yashica-MAT 124G, a late-model twin-lens reflex camera during one of its final years in production. Even then, it was an oddball, since almost everyone else he knew had already become acquainted with 35mm. But he was—and continues to be—rebellious.
Morgan moved on to and experimented with other camera formats that became extensions to his creative spark, his inner dialog brought to the fore. While he still shoots analog and sticks to composing while he shoots, he fully embraces digital, noting the medium’s seemingly endless possibilities in post-production.
“It’s a fast-moving world,” he says, “but it is through my constant pursuit of photographic exceptionalism that I’m able to see the details, the story, and the drama of the stillness between stoplights. I’ll always shoot, and most of the pictures are not going to be that good, but the ones that get through will hopefully transcend to a photograph.”