Place-based photography
I’m also an award-winning fine art photographer and visual storyteller. My work has been shown at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, SF Camerawork, Kala Art Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Nevada State Museum, and more.
I make photographic site studies to explore how specific cultural moments are expressed in the built environment and the landscape.
My visual art background strengthens my work in communications and leads to dynamic creative collaborations.
Current exhibition:
Fueling the Boom: Chinese Woodcutters in the Great Basin, 1870–1920
Nevada State Museum, Carson City
February 22, 2019–ongoing
Charcoal Camp (Piñon Stump), 2017; © 2022 Apollonia Morrill
Fueling the Boom pieces together the story of a 19th-century Chinese woodcutting camp in Nevada that provided fuel for the California gold mining boom towns of Bodie and Aurora. The exhibition includes objects excavated from site with related historical photos. Large scale prints from Charcoal Camp showing the cabins, the surrounding landscape, and the artifacts offer a contemporary perspective on this little-known history.
