A passing storm, distant lightning and a minute-long exposure. Sometimes the photograph depends on being ready to walk out the door.
Author Archives: Scott Murphy
The Lightkeepers Collective is Online
The Lightkeepers Collective brings together photographers and visual artists connected through Falmouth University’s MA Photography programme, with a new website now online and a graduate exhibition planned for May 2027.
Has a Posse
A sticker on a Kingston utility box leads me back to Shepard Fairey’s Andre the Giant Has a Posse and nearly four decades of bootlegs, remixes and visual culture.
Undercurrent: Bristol
Stickers, stencils, graffiti and small acts of alteration interrupt Bristol’s everyday visual order.
Featured Artist at Art Noise: No Dress Rehearsal
Art Noise has featured my work in No Dress Rehearsal: A Hip Inspired Art Exhibition, including three long-exposure photographs made while playing songs by The Tragically Hip.
Published in Source Graduate Photography Online 2026
Eight photographs from my MA project, The Straight Way Lost, are published in Source Graduate Photography Online 2026 alongside work by graduating photographers from programmes across the UK and Ireland.
Second JMVFH Cover Published: Vol 12, Issue 4
My second cover for the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health appears on Volume 12, Issue 4 (2026). The issue features a photo-illustration created for CIMVHR.
Of Something / About Something
Two photographs of the same scene at Upper Gap. One describes what I saw; the other tries to express how I’ve been feeling. An experiment in the difference between making photographs of something and photographs about something.
No Deliveries Through This Door
A grey service door in a Kingston alley beside a hand-painted warning: “NO DELIVERIES THROUGH THIS DOOR.”
A Sign of the Times?
A familiar command, altered by one anonymous word. Why here, and why now?
