Title: Untitled, from the Flickr set CT
Photographer: Tom Murphy.
No Doubt, Flickr is a weird place for photography. Instead of slowly pacing around a clean, white-walled gallery with the sporadic framed photograph — a space that invites contemplation — viewers simply click. And click, and click. With so much of the same, the user-experience can become monotonous rather quickly. But there is a reason people flock to the site daily, and Tom Murphy is one of them. Tom looks for a visual element of surprise among the ordinary. Absurdity certainly creeps into several shots, but more often his work makes subtle observation of human touch. And that’s what makes his stream an easy place to control your clicking for a while.
Statement: “I’ve always loved photography, but haven’t consistently taken photos until a couple of years back when I received a Lomo l-ca as a gift. That got me back into it. More recently I bought a digital SLR and became a flickr junkie. I’m drawn to photographs that conjure a sense of place. I think that’s what i try to capture with my shots too – sometimes more successfully than other times.”
Tom lives in Rowayton, CT with his wife Julie and kids. Ellis and Sadie. His full-time job is working as a Creative Director at an ad agency in the city. He also illustrate children’s books (A Boy and His Bunny, The Juggling Pug). Tom studied art at Syracuse University, where he took a couple of photography courses that made a big impact on him, as you can see.
Tom also collect images from other Flickr members in the set “Pieces of Places.” We here at We Can’t Stop were very glad to find him, taking the time to pause every now and then, and shoot.
