Who is Stuart Murdoch?
About, Stuart Murdoch, who is he and what does he do?
G'day, I'm Stuart Murdoch, [Artist : Photographer: Teacher : Publisher], I specialise in all forms of creative image construction/manipulation using still cameras, please, read my CV for more detailed information.
Art/Photography
Visit my online portfolio/gallery to see what I make. Additionally I offer a variety of photographic services, using traditional and digital mediums to produce imagery, contact me for details.
When I make images, historically most were fine silver gelatin prints. However I also use other films and materials, such as, colour film, and Polaroid® materials and cameras, as a means of creative image construction. Screen based portfolios is another area I am exploring heavily these days.
Digital photography these days; forms a large part of my work, I am considering small [126 & 110 instamatic format]/cheap/toy cameras, and if I can exploit their characteristics as well as using Digital technologies to produce a 'fine print', the focus of my MA, the summary of which, can be downloaded and read, the whole thing as an object, lives in the RMIT library.
Finally, I am toying with a mobile phone cameras [ Sony Ericsson K700i/k610i/C902], to see what kind of imagery I can create, and see if they are capable of producing bodies of engaging work. I upload most of my images to flickr a great photo-sharing resource, in an experimental online permanent ongoing kind of exhibition.
Teaching
I have been very fortunate to be part of a team of hard working educators at PIC photographic imaging college now since the early 1990's. I also teach at Victoria University on a sessional basis, read more on my CV.
Photographer
I use lot's of cameras, to explore the world around me, to explore ideas about the world and myself and my place in it, and use sites like flickr to share those ideas.
Publishing
I have been tinkering with web publishing now since 1995/6. My step into this realm of publishing has several driving factors behind it, the explosion into the public's awareness of the system itself, my becoming more conversant with computers, the reading of the book creating killer web sites, and my own personal belief in the power of the web to empower both self expression and ‘freedom of speech.’ Ultimately though I guess I am a somewhat frustrated, desktop publisher/publisher. The medium that is the early 21st century world wide web, allows me to be my own publisher of the materials and content, I produce or I have found on this journey of image making and web publishing.
Web 2.0
I am on both twitter and facebook as well, with infrequent and periodic entries on both.