I want to know the story and tell it true.
Some photographers shoot what things look like. Lynn McMorris shoots what they feel like.
She is, at her core, a storyteller. The camera is just the pen she picked up along the way.
She learned to see people the way you learn any hard skill, by spending decades among them. As a paramedic and critical care nurse, she sat with people in their worst moments and their most vulnerable ones. As a traveler and nomad, she shared meals, dirt roads, and front porches with strangers from the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to the Mississippi Delta, from the villages north of the Arctic Circle to the Navajo Nation. She learned that if you slow down, show genuine interest, and keep your mouth shut long enough, people will show you who they really are.
That’s the photograph worth taking.
She is not interested in the posed version of your life. She is interested in the true one, the musician lost in the music, the old man who still has something to say, the moment between moments that disappears if nobody is paying attention.
She is based in South Louisiana, home to some of the richest human material on earth. She has never taken that for granted.
Her camera goes everywhere she does.