SEAMUS MURPHY | PHOTOGRAPHER

Photographer Seamus Murphy (born 1959) grew up in Ireland and lives in London. For over two decades, he has photographed extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has won seven World Press Photo Awards. His photography from Afghanistan, which he began in 1994, chronicles the tumultuous life of the Afghan people and won him the World Understanding Award (POYi) This work has been published as a book, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan (Saqi Books, 2008) and has been exhibited internationally.

Seeing this book and exhibition prompted musician P.J. Harvey to approach Murphy to make a series of films to accompany her album, Let England Shake.

Above all, his subject is the human being. The late photographer Philip Jones Griffiths, author of Vietnam Inc. described Murphy as “a poet with a camera”.

“Photography” says Murphy, “is part history, part magic”.mediastorm

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Seamus Murphy è un fotoreporter irlandese. Ha lavorato in Europa, Medio oriente, Asia, Africa e America latina. Le sue fotografie sono apparse su molte testate internazionali, tra cui The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, National Geographic, The Guardian. I suoi reportage in Afghanistan realizzati tra il 1994 e il 2007 sono stati raccolti nel libro A darkness visibile: Afghanistan (Saqi Books, 2008). Per i suoi lavori ha vinto sette World press photo. internazionale

All images © Seamus Murphy

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