Scott Murphy

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Deer crossing sign altered with a red reflective nose

A little roadside intervention, a reflective red nose, and a reminder that the world could use more whimsy.

Long exposure photography is more than a slow shutter speed. Through photographs made in Paris, London, Montréal, Lake Ontario, and Kingston, this essay explores how time, movement and perception can transform a scene, from light trails and softened water to ghosted crowds and abstraction.

I Spy Little Eyes

Black pipe with googly eyes attached, photographed against a dark wall.

Once I noticed the first pair, I started seeing them everywhere: googly eyes on fire hydrants, walls, and bits of street furniture, turning city walks into a small scavenger hunt.

Crowd Control

A 323-second long exposure of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, with the surrounding crowd dissolved into faint atmospheric traces.

A Field Note on photographing the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, using long exposure to turn a crowded museum encounter into an image of time, movement, and human presence.

I See a Red Door

A Bristol doorway turns a familiar lyric into street-text: part joke, part threshold, part urban colour study.

Under Montréal

Long-exposure colour photograph of a train blurring past the Champ-de-Mars platform in the Montréal Métro, viewed from the platform entrance at the bottom of the stairs.

A photo essay from the Montréal Métro, where colour, motion, tiled surfaces, and human scale turn underground infrastructure into a study of daily passage.

Patience at the Water’s Edge

Black and white photograph of an adult swan swimming among reeds with three cygnets, two riding on its back and one beside it in the water.

A quiet Field Note from Kingston, where a managed stormwater pond becomes a neighbourhood habitat for swans, cygnets, and patient observation.

Palais de Tokyo

Figure standing before monumental metal doors at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

Monumental doors photographed at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris as part of the ongoing Door Studies series.

Upper Gap

A quiet evening beside Lake Ontario after completing my MA Photography final project. Photographed from Upper Gap using a 24-second exposure.

Islands of Light

Foggy night in the staff parking lot at Providence Care Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, with streetlights glowing through mist and a single parked car.

A foggy night transforms an ordinary parking lot into a cinematic scene of glowing streetlights, reflections, and quiet isolation.

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