Darrell K Morris - Professional Photographer based in London, UK

Or if you have never been, then come along to East Dulwich (or as my Grandad used to call it – East Dull-Witch) over the next month, for my new show. Hopefully, I haven’t gone down too a pretentious route with the title, but it hopefully covers what the new show is all about, which is saying Goodbye to some older works and showcasing some new works and adding a much needed bit of colour after a plethora of shows and art events where there has been a whole lot of monochrome. So, the first two weeks (Friday June 18th to Thursday July 1st) start with a grainy view across Westminster Bridge to the London Eye via a man with an umbrella to an equally grainy bridge in an until now unnamed location, which was confused yesterday, as among others Chiswick, Richmond and Prague, but is a little closer to my old hometown. Throw-in an Abstract image of the Eiffel Tower, James Dean, a Reflection, a bit of Reportage and some works from my Speakers Corner portfolio and voila!! You have a mini exhibition and it’s up now at the Blue Mountain Wine Bar which is by day – a lovely little cafe/coffee house and now by night a sweet little wine bar off the main drag that is Lordship Lane and it’s assault course of middle-class Mum’s and flotillas of Bugaboo’s.

But, after tonight and a possibly pretty quiet private view (who scheduled England to play Algeria on the same night?) that is when the hard work starts. As in a completely foolhardy moment, I have decided to produce a second show to go up two weeks later, with a new portfolio of all-new work, that hasn’t been seen before, unless you’re one of those unfortunate souls to be plagued by attachments in their inbox from me, asking for validation of a new grainy and currently usually Abstract image. If you follow me on Twitter then you’ll know that I have finally hooked up with this new fangled Digital camera thing. I have flirted briefly with the medium in the past, but I think I may have finally found ”the one” which I know sounds a little bit weird, as I am talking about a camera and not someone to share my life with. But, I am officially excited by the prospect of shooting a load of new work digitally, especially as my new Olympus has a brilliant Grainy Film filter setting (see above image) and you can expect to see a lot more of this to come in the near future. If all things go to plan over the next ten days, I’ll have in place a whole set of works and the first exhibition (unless the whole portfolio sells) will be consigned to a series of stamped portfolio boxes and placed carefully underneath my bed, never to see the light of day again, a bit like the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, but lacking any kind of Wrath Of God.

So, if Football isn’t you’re thing, do come along tonight (from 6p.m. onwards) and see the show. Otherwise, despite me racing around London and area’s of Southern England over the next two weeks, I will be free on occasion to meet up with people if they would like a personal view of the work , over an all-day veggie breakfast, tea and cake or an evening aperitif (delete as applicable). And hopefully in a couple of weeks time, I shall have a small intimate celebration of a new direction and a new portfolio… I hope to see you all there.

P.S. – I really do hate to talk about my charity work… But, 20% of all sales from the exhibition and through the website for the next month, will be donated to Save The Children