Sunday, May 26, 2013

Anita Murphy In The World Of Photography

By Vicki Diaz


Photography has always been a very good hobby that has been turned into a very promising career path for a lot of artistic people over the past few years. Among the most famous photographers in the entire world, one woman known as Anita Murphy has made her mark with her outstanding skills. Like everyone, she started out small and became big through her little projects.

Her promising career started when she was studying Documentary Photography in the University of Wales as an art student. Even at that time she already had a very good eye for details and even a knack for designs which is very apparent in her work today. She was even able to work under very famous photographers like Paul Seawright and Ken Grant while she was still studying.

After she had graduated from her university, she then went to Berlin, Germany in order to further refine her skills as a photographer. She chose this place as the scenery was the best to experiment on different kinds of photography techniques. This is also where she was able to apply all of the techniques that she learned in her course.

Some of her expertise includes taking photos of weddings, events, and food. She is especially good at taking crystal clear candid shots of for example chefs when they are in the height of making their food. Her excellent timing when it comes to taking action shots are very well known as a lot of her work comes out in a few magazines and articles.

Now professionally, she was able to cover some major documentaries like Gorjas. This documentary is about a Gypsy community that is located in a place called Rover Way and has been neglected by the public as many people did not like Gypsies. The goal of Murphy was to be able to portray the community as a good one so that all of the negative perceptions of the people would go away.

Her next work was called A Dogs Life which is about the life of greyhounds who are raised for the sole purpose of dog racing. For this documentary, she worked closely with famous dog trainer Ger Mckenna so that she could know how these dogs eat, live, and breathe. By doing this, she was able to make her work come to life and was able to portray these hounds in the honorable way that they are supposed to.

Sometime in 2004, she decided to head back to Ireland and continue her photography career there. Since she already had a steady career, she did very well in Ireland as a lot of her works were exhibited there. She is even featured in the Irish version of the very famous Times magazine.

As one can see, Anita Murphy is definitely one of the top people that amateur photographers can really look up to. Because of exceptional skills and a lot of hard work, she was able to take her career to the next step and come out on top. If she can do it, then many young people in the same field definitely can as well.




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