Seamus Murphy is an Irish documentary photographer and filmmaker. He grew up in Ireland and is based in London. In his work he looks for intimacy and poetic realism.
He has won seven World Press Photo awards for his work in Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Peru, the UK and Ireland. His photographs are in the collections of the Getty Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the National Gallery of Ireland and FRAC Auvergne in France.
His books include A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan (Saqi Books, 2008), based on 12 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2007. With the musician PJ Harvey he made The Hollow of the Hand (Bloomsbury, 2015). The Republic (Allen Lane, 2016) is about his native Ireland. Strange Love (Setanta Books, 2025) looks at life in the United States and Russia. He worked on it between 2005 and 2019.
As a filmmaker, Murphy directed A Dog Called Money (2019), which premiered at the Berlinale.
