A traveling retrospective of his photographs entitled Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye has been organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mr. Morell is a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lisa McElaney, a filmmaker, and their children, Brady and Laura.