News – Scott Murphy ⊙ Photographer

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.

Featured Artist at Art Noise: No Dress Rehearsal

Art Noise artist feature for Scott Murphy showing three long-exposure photographs from No Dress Rehearsal: A Hip Inspired Art Exhibition.

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

Cover of the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, Volume 12, Issue 4 (2026), featuring a photo-illustration by Scott Murphy.

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.

MA Photography with Distinction, Falmouth University

I completed my MA in Photography at Falmouth University with Distinction. The degree culminated in The Straight Way Lost, a photographic project exploring disorientation, identity, landscape, mapping, and sequence.

Named Featured Artist: Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health

A black and white promotional graphic announcing Colonel (Retired) Scott Murphy as the Featured Artist for JMVFH 11.5, showing a self-portrait on the left and a silhouetted figure walking through a tunnel on the right.

I’m honoured to be named a Featured Artist in JMVFH 11.5. This recognition builds on the earlier cover announcement and highlights the story and intention behind the work I created during my transition from military service. Grateful to CIMVHR for the opportunity to contribute.

First Journal Cover Published: Supporting Military and Veteran Health Through Photography

Silhouetted figure walking toward daylight at the end of a tunnel, representing military transition and recovery.

A photograph created during my transition away from military life has found a new home as the cover image for the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2025).

(Open-access journal link in article)

Published in Rideau Reflections, Friends of the Rideau Newsletter

My Meditations on the Rideau project is featured in Rideau Rflections, the Friends of the Rideau newsletter, highlighting my analog photographic approach to the waterway.