New Horizon: Reshaping My Work
If you are reading this, you have somehow found your way to my first blog/newsletter - shared with an impressive audience of zero. Kudos!
This blog marks a transformation of my photo portfolio site, murphsmedia.net, into a more comprehensive hub for my passions and my work. I’m planning to write about a whole host of topics such as the mental processes while making images, techniques, art history & philosophy, or the ever-changing medium of social media which has drastically changed the world of art consumption and beyond.
Honestly, my biggest hesitation over the years of publicly sharing my work and thoughts is bottlenecking my work into a defined set of topics or themes. But, that thinking leads to not sharing inspired moments with people at all. I’m going to write about whatever I genuinely find interesting at the time, and if that happens to also be interesting to others - great!
Broadly speaking, I am evolving my craft of photography & video into a form that allows me to be more authentic and sustainable. Here’s what’s about to happen:
Prints: The thousands of images I have laying dormant on my laptop are going to be gradually published onto a print store.
Process: I am going to begin documenting the process behind my image-making. Blogs detailing steps, POV videos, and commentary. I realised that on top of my images not being public, it is absurd to expect somebody to appreciate the deep process involved in creating photographs if I do not make the effort to share the journey itself. After all, photographs largely represent the physical and psychological journeys taken to capture it; a core principle is representing how the photographer sees the world.
Content. In addition to the above, I’m considering making content such as YouTube videos and shortform reels to educate, share and inspire folks who are into the same stuff I like (mostly photo stuff lol). I have mixed feelings about the term ‘content creation’, because it at once can be extremely reductive yet so vague that it describes many different disciplines. Perhaps a topic for an upcoming newsletter.
This newsletter is going to become ground zero for discussing ideas. I tend to get held up with perfectionism such that I never end up finishing the things I want to create. I plan to use these posts as a low-stakes, less filtered catalyst for projects to come. That means an early look to anything I’m working on, so I especially welcome discussion & feedback!
Looking forward to it.
- Murph
