Seamus Murphy: evaluation

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…Now, if you meet a young person, and that person wants to be some modified version of what you have done — photography, possibly something with cinema, multimedia projects, working with music. Of course, they should work hard, and they should be smart, but what are the traits you would look for in them to judge whether or not that was possible for them to do? I think it would not be a technical thing. I think people can learn technical stuff very quickly. The technology is so accessible. I think it’s themselves. I think it’s their interests. I think it’s their curiosity. It’s a very tough field to get into. It’s very competitive. It’s changed so much since I started doing it, but that, actually, they could handle because they grew up with the technology and the way things are, so that wouldn’t be a problem for them. I think it’s really to do it and to do it properly and to have a proper career in it and spend the time you’d need, you really have to be interested in what you’re talking about. You have to have a curiosity. You have to have a real interest and a love of it. Whether it’s the photography, whether it’s the politics, whether it’s the environment — whatever the subject is. You should always do work that you love. Of course, you’ll have to do work that you don’t love to make a living and to get on and pay bills, but projects that you take on that take time and take a lot of energy, and many times you think it’s going to be a failure, and nothing will ever come of it — you have to love what you’re doing. You have to have an interest. I think that the biggest advice is to follow the things that you love and find a way to make it work. Do you feel there was a point in your career when you didn’t do that? Or you think you’ve just executed on that consistently?…

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