Lauren Huffman Morris
Propeller Member Since 2025
Lauren Huffman Morris is an emerging, self-taught art photographer based in Toronto. Her predominately B&W photography is inspired by daytime and nocturnal walks in Toronto and other cities, especially Montreal and Washington, DC to date; city architecture and industrial sites; film noir and crime fiction; the paintings of Edward Hopper and George Bellows; and the photography of Berenice Abbott and Edward Weston, among others. Lauren’s work has appeared in over 30 group exhibitions, including several at Propeller as well as at Northern Contemporary Gallery, Arts Etobicoke and Twist Gallery in Toronto. Lauren has also exhibited in juried shows with Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and Decode Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. At present, a number of her photographs (and a few paintings) are in the hands of private collectors in Toronto
I’ve been told that my photographs look like old book plates or movie stills. I have loved old books and films, especially film noir, since I was a child, staying up late, late, late to read or watch movies with my Dad, my greatest partner-in-crime. Vivid images of old illustrations and film scenes are filed away in my noggin–Mary, Queen of Scots, majestically ascending the scaffold to her beheading; the ” bad seed” child murderess, Rhoda, played magnificently by Patty McCormack, vanishing off the pier in a bolt of lightning as she gets her comeuppance. I think of my own photographs as scenes from much bigger stories–with intriguing backstories and uncanny plot twists. Perhaps this explains why my favourite subjects are silent streets or those peopled with faceless individuals; isolated buildings; and portals–doors, peephole, windows and bridges. The unseen often tells us more than the seen–all the best storytellers in all art forms know this!
Lauren Huffman Morris
