http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com Birmingham based professional photographer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:16:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog has been a bit quiet lately, mainly due to my bloggging a series of portraits that I (and the very talented Jennifer Peel) took over  the Artsfest weekend in September over on Birmingham Photospace. The images are being gradually revealed until the day the exhibition opens Birmingham's People is ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=206 Last Saturday I was lucky enough to photograph Musituality at St Phillips Cathedral in Birmingham, a celebration of Brum's multicultural heritage organised by Rich Batsford. It was a deeply moving spiritual event and was set in gorgeous surroundings. Click here for the gallery http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=201 [caption id="attachment_194" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Moseley : A Portrait"][/caption] Last weekend was Project X Presents... Xhibition in which everyones favourite multidisciplinary Birmingham arts collective took over Moseley Village for a day. I've been involved with PXP for a couple of years now documenting their weird and wonderful events but this is the ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=195 Have been neglecting blogging here because I'm now blogging regularly over here, the new website for the Birmingham Photospace Group of which I'm a committee member. It's a really exciting project aiming to create a dedicated photography gallery in Birmingham and I'll be writing posts about photography in general, from practitioners ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=182 Had a fun night participating in the 4AM Project last night, an attempt to document an hour when the world sleeps. The project has been organised by the very talented Karen Strunks I was lucky enough to get the chance to document New Street Station and the Wholesale Markets, two Birmingham ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=168 Firstly from a shoot to celebrate my mother-in-law, the wonderful Pat Flynn, receiving her MBE for services to libraries in Leicester. She's an amazing lady. And in complete contrast a street portrait from the photographer's mecca that is the St Patrick's Day Parade in Digbeth Birmingham. One of my resolutions this ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=161 Taking random pictures with the Birmingham Flickrmeet group is always fun and is something I've neglected over the last year or so. This 'meet was an ideal chance to use that Lensbaby that had been gathering dust in my deep dark Drawer of Lenses. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=136 One of the wonderful things about working in the visual arts is the way that ideas can twist and shape themselves into new forms. It's always fun to reevaluate old work with new eyes. Two years ago I created a series of photographs based loosely on Wim Wender's astonishingly good ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=129 Birmingham is a strange place for the arts in general, possessing lots of creative talent but only recently has it seemed that the arty types in the city have been mobilising and working together cohesively, helped by the various forms of social media that have sprung up in recent years. ... http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=125 So long between posts! Here's some snowy Brum shots while I write some proper material! http://www.mattmurtaghphotography.com/?p=85