We’ve spent a bit of time here on dva gushing about Seamus Murphy and his recent-ish work in Russia for Gary Knight’s Dispatches magazine.
Now out this week is from a conversation between Murphy and Knight at the HOST Gallery in London, from back in in April. Really neat, and fun to hear the backstories.

Doesn’t sound like the easiest of shoots (though Murphy says this challenge in fact produced most of the photos) but it sure worked out well. I just went through the full slideshow again, a very interesting slice of modern Russia.

The GlobalPost, a leading purveyor of internet-focused international journalism, has just published the multimedia package “Life, death, and the Taliban.” Featuring the photography of dvafoto favorite Seamus Murphy, the pieces mixes written reporting, video, and still photojournalism in a remarkably comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Taliban. There’s almost too much here to take in, but it’s all worthwhile. While you’re at it, check out Murphy’s “A Darkness Visible,” a website devoted to some of his early coverage of the Taliban.

(via Fresh Air interview with GlobalPost executive editor Charles Sennott)

Continuing our posts on Seamus Murphy, here’s “Carry on up the Gulag: Interview with Seamus Murphy” at Dispatches’ site. Murphy talks a bit about the process of photographing Russia for Dispatches’ issue “On Russia” and shares some stories behind individual pictures. And if you’re in London on Wed., April 29, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., head on over to the Honduras Street Gallery for a conversation between Seamus Murphy and Gary Knight. (both via the Dispatches group on Facebook)

Scott wrote a few weeks ago about Seamus Murphy’s new work on Russia in Dispatches magazine. Like Scott, up until recently I had only known of Murphy’s work and hadn’t seen much of it. So props to reader and friend of Dva Jeremy M Lange who pointed us to a new site of Murphy’s and helped change that for me.

Alas I just found a gallery (don’t know if it is new or I missed it before) of Murphy’s pictures on the Reportage by Getty Images website with pictures from America. They’re very interesting and Worth a Look.

Just got a facebook message from Dispatches about the newest photos and slideshow on the magazine’s site. “East of the Sun,” part of the issue On Russia, is beautiful and strange. I’m not convinced of some of the close-up crops in the video, but the music and editing made me chuckle (in a good way) more than a few times. Beautiful and strange work from Russia by Seamus Murphy.

Unfortunately, it’s a little difficult to find Seamus Murphy’s other work online. There was a little blurb about him over at Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor blog that started out:

One of my all time favorite photographers has no agent, no website, doesn’t send out promo mailers, no logo, isn’t in any of the sourcebooks, not listed in the free workbook phonebook, has never called to see if I’ve got anything for him and if I hadn’t scoured the web and made a few phone calls years ago I would have no clue how to contact him….”

There’s a little feature at Outside magazine about being in the field with Seamus Murphy in Syria. Granta has some of his work online focusing on soldiers getting ready for deployment. There’s also a small interview at Culture 24. And definitely don’t miss his POYi 62 World Understanding Award portfolio of work from Afghanistan, which is also the subject of what looks to be a great book, “Afghanistan: A Darkness Visible.”