Architecturally speaking, the building bears the heavy imprint of the UN's early vision. "I'm saddened that the post war ideal didn't materialise", Murphy says. And that the building is decaying and this beautiful space is going to change. But it's like a museum. It no longer represents the real world. It was one of the earliest projects of the upcoming young Brazilian architect Niemeyer, the famous project 23.
Ben Murphy has achieved praise for his series 'Riverbed', pictures shot in Spain. The series was about a post-colonial settlement in Andalusia, a colony of British New age travellers in the wasteland of Spain. Due to the series, he got a fund from the Grant Foundation in Chicago to work on Tent Cities in the United States. The works will be on show at the Photographers Gallery in London and at the Stieglitz19 Gallery. Works of Ben Murphy are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has also been shortlisted for the Sovereign Price. He is presently working on a series on hippie communities in Spain.
January 21 - February 26 2012
Stieglitz19
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