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Jamie Morgan
Interviewed by Christabel Stewart

CS: You were a central part of a highly influential and individualistic 'gang' of creatives -Buffalo- that established a very strong aesthetic and specific professional structure in fashion image-making. What was it like to move away from this support structure to forge your own practice?
JM: Hard at first. I made a decision early on my career to work in cooperation with people: especially the relationship that I created with (the stylist) Ray Petri and the other Buffalo gang members. So much so that I sacrificed my personal ambition over what I wanted to create with the collective of Buffalo. It became more about attitude and aesthetic than my personal desires. Even so, I still always shot what I wanted to. Ray trusted my photographic judgement completely. When Buffalo was no longer I had no problem creatively, but I felt very isolated emotionally and in terms of my career ambitions. Without the gang it all seemed a bit pointless.