SHOOT YOUR SHOT

Teenage camera prodigy DENNIS MORRIS’s pics of Bob Marley, PiL and more sear the page, half a century on. A sneak peek at his new book, Life + Music, hypnotises DANNY ECCLESTON.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY FOR Bob Marley to dismiss the 13-year-old hustling him for pictures outside London’s Speakeasy club in the spring of 1973. So why didn’t he? “Bob was used to taking young people seriously,” muses that 13-year-old today, sat in a west London hotel bar, super-cool in transparent specs frames of his own design. “In Trenchtown I saw kids of eight, looking at me, thinking, ‘I can take you any time.’ They’re already having to provide for the family.” Jamaica-born, Hackney-raised Dennis Morris was already bewitched by the camera, capturing intimate aspects of his Anglo-West Indian community and running a nascent photography business out of his family’s flat. His Marley encounter became a whirlwind road trip with The Wailers (which earned him a hiding from his stepfather),…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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