Conor B Murphy Photography

I would like to frame this discourse as a response to my prior “Artist’s Statement” which, no longer present here, operates as an abstract, nondescript referent. I—and perhaps also those few friends who possess a copy of my book—am the sole critic of my prior writing. My last statement (written in July 2007) was moreover Emersonian. Two points are of interest here: Emersonian non-egoism, which I will now laisse tomber through an active forgetfulness, and what we might call the negative creation of a position, c’est-à-dire a position divulged through the removal parameters, I took in response to having to take a position at all. An “Artist’s Statement” has to say something rather than nothing and it was here and is still here that my anxiety is brought to the fore. My current non-position is a gentle reappropriation of my prior.

I have always found landscape photography to be a peculiar practice insofar as the landscape photographer is always the moreover passive point through which a scene is able to be expressed on paper. We might hold this position of art in general—the poet is the passive medium through which language flows…—but in landscape photography, this is always immediately self-evident. I have but taken one wholly intentional photograph that I still cherish. Perhaps now I have made a statement that avoids that anxiety as to having to have a position. What, then, makes the best photographs? …they’re most often that which you almost walked by.

Cameras		Accessories
Nikon D70		Nikkor 18-70mm 1:3.5-4.5
Nikon D70 - Infrared		Sigma 10-20mm 1:4-5.6
Nikon N80		Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4-5.6
Nikon L5		Nikkor 28-80mm 1:3.3-5.6
		Tripod
		Various filters and other accessories