ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 3:
(Chapter 3 of 13, Running Time: 00:12:19)
Chapter Index: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Perils of Music on the Move
Fury over Crash Girl
The Love Stampede
Chapter 3 Synopsis:
- Was undercurrent of threat at that historical period in Ireland.
- Overheard photographer being told to photograph victim's injured hand.
- Disillusioned by ethics of photographs made for paper.
- Also disillusioned by experience of being used as model for illustrative photographs.
- Had cycling accident, felt exploited by paper's use of pictures to report story.
- Concluded that photojournalism was a bit dirty and underhand and not what she wanted to do.
- Felt part of newspaper but at bottom of hierarchy.
- Old style drinking culture at newspaper.
- Sexist attitude to female photographer.
- Role of women in maintaining the newspaper archive replicated that in domestic and studio photography.
- Was using facilities and film at the newspaper to make her own photographs.
- Was friends with photographers Frank and Roseanne who were helpful.
- Learnt how to print but negatives were developed crudely by newspaper.
- Learnt a bit about politics but more about how to work in an office.
Perils of Music on the Move
Fury over Crash Girl
The Love Stampede
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