England | 2011 | 51 mins | HDCAM | Colour
Seamus Murphy
Seamus Murphy (born 1959) grew up in Ireland and lives in London. For over two decades, he has photographed extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has won seven World Press Photo Awards. His photography from Afghanistan, which he began in 1994, chronicles the life of the Afghan people over thirteen tumultuous years and won him the World Understanding Award (POYi).
Murphy’s work has been published widely, including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Granta, Paris Match, Le Monde and The Guardian.
We are delighted to welcome Seamus Murphy who will present and discuss his work.
PJ Harvey’s eight studio album Let England Shake was released to mass critical acclaim earlier this year, culminating in her winning the 2011 Mercury Music Prize Award. To accompany the album, award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy spent two years travelling 5,000 miles around England to create twelve films inspired by and developed from themes in the album. Each film is a combination of still and moving imagery, created in the fashion of classic photographic reportage recording real and spontaneous situations to document England and the English psyche.
