Seamus Murphy - Strange Love charcoal press

Seamus Murphy - Strange Love charcoal pressSetanta Books 2025 This extraordinary work, captured between 2005 and 2019, challenges the conventional narrative of East versus West and offers a striking visual exploration of life in post industrial America and Russia. Through his lens, Murphy uncovers unexpected similarities between the two nations. It forces us to question our assumptions and rethink geopolitical divides, prompting a fundamental question: are the lives shaped by such immense

creating an imaginative portrait of life in these borderlands

phrenology

It was in America that he learned to be a photographer

August both historicizes the work but also examines the devices of making

The stories are on the first shore – well-constructed

though fiction

and schedule appointments

ground personnel

and photography in dialogue with other media

gathering dusky light for the duration of the night

a young soldier from Odesa

sincere feeling for the people she photographs