A luminous comet shooting across the late 70s constellation of photographers and artists that included Nan Goldin David Armstrong Jack Pierson and PhilipLorca diCorcia Mark Morrisroe produced an incredibly rich and various body of work in the brief tenplus years in which he was active. He survived a fraught childhood and teen years as a prostitute he was once shot by a client to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he made friendships with Goldin Armstrong and others performed in drag under the name Sweet Raspberry cofounded the punk zine Dirt sort of invented the Boston punk scene Jack Pierson later recalled and eventually graduated from the school with honors. Shortly after Morrisroe moved to New York acquired a Polaroid camera and began photographing.