Seamus Murphy: commitment

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…How was it that in the Ireland of that time, you became a photographer? I didn’t become a photographer in Ireland. It wasn’t until I went to America, and I bought a camera, and I had time. Also, there was a dark room near where I was living, a public dark room, and I was able to use that. I learned how to develop my black and white film and print it. That was a huge factor, to take a picture, and then be able to control it afterwards and see it. Suddenly there was a continuation, there was consistency, something that you thought about, something that you saw, something you wanted to capture, you could then see the result. You learn from your mistakes, and when you’re printing, you really see the mistakes. It was really when I left Ireland that I learned photography. What had been your job in Ireland?…

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