Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Richard Morgan2020/21
“Is Your Journey Necessary?”
Photography
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Richard Morgan was the 2018 CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year and finalist of Sky Arts’ Master of Photography. His work has been published in The Independent, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.
When I read the question “Is Your Journey Necessary?” on a government sign high above Liverpool Street, I had an existential crisis. Was my journey on my bike with my camera necessary? Was my journey through life necessary? Are any journeys really necessary? If it’s not the destination that matters, but how you get there, then what was to become of the journeys we make?
This series is the result of the journeys I made in London during the lockdowns, when I explored the city more than at any other time of my life. It is a collection of everyday human moments that continued to happen during that unique historical moment. The photographs are now mementos, souvenirs of the beautiful and crazy nature of public life during the emergency.