Benjamin Morrison (b.1998) is a visual reseracher and writer based between Brussels, the Hague and Dublin.



Septemeber 2024, Group Show

When it Rains Ch.3

Represented by FUTURES at UNSEEN, Amsterdam



July 2024, Solo Show/Residency

When it Rains Ch.2

‘Unfolding Futures’, Futures Hub Amsterdam




June 2024, KABK Grad Show

When it Rains Ch.1

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague




April 2024, Public Reading

Mnemotope 004

Bog Bodies Press, Eindhoven




March 2024, Group Show

Can Dormant Seeds Bloom?

‘Fragments in Transit’, Beetroot Studios, Thessaloniki




Nov 2023, Group Show

Nooderlicht Photo Festival

Groningen



June 2023, Group Show

Everything That Melts is About to Blend

MAPS, De Helena, The Hague




Nov 2022, Group Show

Reservoir

Yolun Dişinda’, Darağaç, Izmir




May 2022, Solo Show

Natura

Soearth Projects, Kildare



Mar 2019, Group Show June 2023

DUPA End of Year

Copper House Gallery, Dublin






Apr 2024

Mnemotope 004  


Bog Bodies Press, Eindhoven




Mar 2024
Weather Diaires
Trigger FOMU, Antwerp



Mar 2019
Ireland’s Post Polio Survivors
University Times Magazine, Dublin


 

July 2024

FUTURES HUB

Unfolding Futures Summer Residency, Amserdam




Jan 2022

ZONE Residency

Borsec, Romania






June 2023

Student Development Programme

Canon, Remote  



May 2022 Mar 2021

Agillity Award  

Arts Council Ireland



Mar 2021 

Belfast Photo Festival  

Shortlisted  








Aug 2022 - 2024

Master’s Photography & Society

Royal Academy of Art the Hague, Netherlands



Sep 2016 - 2020

Bachelor’s Zoology

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland




Aug 2024

Best of Grad 2024

Metropolis M Magazine, Utrecht





mail: photo@benjmorrison.com




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When it Rains Ch.3
  • Group Show 
  • at UNSEEN Amsterdam

19-09-24

Co-exhibting with Joseph Kennel, 
Alia Leonardi & Daniel Zduinik
Curator Nurai Broafull 




The sky, the earth, the sea... all events that I remember whether they are things that have happened to me or things that have happened to others... all this goes insdie me, in the vast cloisters of my memory.’

- Augusitine of Hippo

This work consisted of three handmade collages using stiching and bookbinding techniques to present an open diary. Family photographs from my grandfather’s archive alongside photographs from my own archive mingle with diary entries from my grandmothers and I. Through it all pages from a weather observer book tether our collective inherited memories to the physical world. 





When it Rains Ch.2
  • Solo Show 
  • at Futures Hub Amsterdam

18-07-24

Curator Nurai Broafull 
Art Director Kim Boske


Exhibtion Text 

In the words of Maria Stepanova, a diary is a series of proofs that life has continuity and history. Stemming from my grandmother’s habitual act of diary keeping, When it Rains has developed into a long-term investigation into the this behaviour. Through this
practice-led research I ask; What is the value of human perception in a world of increasing mediation? Is their ‘clarity’ in the ambiguousness of human perception? Should images, distinguished by their ability to represent the world in ‘clear’ detail, determine how we navigate lived experience? During this two-week
residency at Futures, I have collected both material and ephemeral traces of my experience to illustrate the potential of looking with photography and to broaden my own understanding of diary-keeping. 






This work was created as part of a two week residency programme In the Futures Hub Amsterdam as part of Unfolding Futures.
When it Rains Ch.1 
  • Group Show ‘I Wonder Where it Lands’ 
  • at KABK Graduation Show

June/July 2024

Supervised by 
Sara Blokland, Andrea Stultiens and Tom Viaene 









Exhibition Text

I smell the rain, underneath the lime tree, sun on my neck, the bees in summer, frozen stream, breath steaming, black shallow night, hands grasping, a garden forgotten, body spinning, the wind pulling, eyes squinting, light of day cresting, dipping, resting.

The weather is our grand theatrical stage for the performance of our everyday routines. To events that mark us, to those that enter the realm of forgetting. The weather is unceasingly there, in our collective and individual memory, and in the incessant traces it leaves on body and land alike. Seeking Haraway’s ‘objective perception through partial perspective’, my grandmother’s weather diary presented itself as a novel opportunity to rethink the act of looking and recording for oneself. Through a diary dialogue spanning sixty four years between my grandmother and I, When it rains aims to reinforce the intimate connection between ways of looking and ways of being. Working through found material, text, audio and moving imagery this work embraces nostalgia and curiosity as a space of active reconnection.  

This work was created as part of my two year Master’s project for the MA in Photography & Society (MAPS) at the Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK). 






Diary Dialogue, my Grandmother & I 
  • Publication 
  • in Mnemotope Issue 004

April 2024

Published by 
Bog Bodies Press




This text was sourced from my theis When it Rains produced for the Masters in Photography & Society at KABK. Combining my grandmothers diaries with my own, a narrative emerges between our shared watching of the world. It focuses on the diary entry as a written format for habitual human introspection. 


Can Dormant Seeds Bloom?
    Group Show ‘Fragments in Transit’
    MAPS x Beetroot Studios 

    08-03-24

Curated by 
Tashiya de Mel & Gundega Strauberga





Exhibition Text 

This place was once a tower, a home, a garden. Now it is a square. 

It remembers the comings and goings of peoples, from Turks, to Slavs, to Jews and Greeks. Time has washed away the stains, yet traces linger still. In the burst of pigeon flight, to the slow slink of the ginger cat. Amongst the blues and reds of the scrawling graffiti and in the scarred bark of the two trees. It rests on the hands and faces of the people that sit in the shade of the byzantine wall. 

A central stage for small acts, the square invited us to sit and watch the shadows grow. What can be found in absence? Can dormant seeds bloom? From the physical act of placing a seed in the soil to the chance encounter of two like-minded strangers, we document these encounters. Through this artistic intervention, we have seen the ghosts of the city, hiding in the quiet whispers of the walls.



This work was created in collaboration with Roger Anis, Ana Francisco & Anastasia Miseyko. 
An Interrupted Sequence
  • Group Show ‘Everything that Melts is About to Blend’
  • MAPS 

23-06-23 


  • Supervised & Curated by
  • Jana Romonova, Daniel Siegersma & Dirk Jan-Visser


Exhibition Text

I hold a red leather bound diary in my hands. It is my grandmothers, and it tells the story of a garden. A space for connection with the cycle of the seasons, the slow passing of years and the fading of lifetimes. Like a tree, in an existence of constant exposure, this diary plants memory in time and place.

What then happens when the seasons shift?



This work was produced for the final exam of my first year at the Master’s in Photography & Society. It became a precusor for the my graduation work, When it Rains
ReservoirGroup Show ‘Yolun Dışında’ 
MAPS x Darağaç

November 2022

Curated by 
Pascal Giese & Manu Ferneini 






Exhibition Text 

In recent years Turkey has face unprecedented water scarcity challenges. It is believed that overall water demand in Turkey has doubled in the second half of the last century, and continues to rise as rising global temperatures push water resources to their limit. In the face of this growing crisis, the photographic work ‘Reservoir’ follows the historical traces of water in the ancient city of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey’s third largest city. 

Working alongside photojournalist Roger Anis, we traversed the region searching for the lost body of water, Lake Halkapına. Using a postcard as our jumping off point, we photographed the spaces the lake had been along with other bodies of water within the city, from the dried out lake of Kültürpark to the abandoned foundations of a skyscraper. We also travelled to the ancient city of Ephesus, once a thriving port city that no longer reaches the sea. In our search we discovered a  new artificial lake of steel and glass squatting on top of the old lake, Atatürk Stadium.  

‘Reservoir’ speaks of a hibernating beast, a great body of water that is slowly being drained from place and memory. This work pushes the audience into motion, following the movement of water through the city, no longer following the natural topography but instead flowing down gutters and drains, sequestering in forgotten places. 
This work was produced in collaboration with Roger Anis.