Ste Murray | Photography & Design

08/09/2026

30% OFF on my print store

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Framed prints, loose prints, mounted prints, amd books - for the month of September

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01/09/2026

London! I have some images in this great exhibition this month

30/07/2026

Resist.

Last Saturday I launched a new series of postcards. To celebrate, I led my first set of photowalks around Dublin 8 as part of The Liberties Festival with a couple of wonderfully curious groups, we sipped some coffee in my office courtesy of Two Pups Coffee, and raised a few glasses in Hopeless Botanics plant shop to celebrate (thanks Glendalough Distillery for continuing the botanical theme!).

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The city rewards attention. Within its streets and structures, another landscape quietly takes shape: plants pushing through cracked walls, neglected gutters, vacant sites and forgotten corners. They reveal places that have been left to time.
Photographed throughout The Liberties, these images are observations of urban flora growing beyond gardens and intention. Buddleia appears throughout the series, alongside other species that have found unexpected places to take hold; persisting wherever the built environment begins to loosen its grip.
Resist. is a collection of ten photographic postcards. Together, they invite a slower way of moving through familiar spaces, where wandering, looking and noticing reveal a shifting botanical landscape woven throughout the fabric of Dublin’s streets.
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With thanks to Muireann Dolan for all the work on this project (including the gorgeous chrysalis-like wrap for the pack of postcards), Linns Archive for early research, and patience, Fiona Nulty for joining the tour and offering a botanist’s vital point of view, and of course John Fallon's "The Capstan Bar" for hosting the post-mortem, as always.

Limited Edition of 200 A6 sized packs of 10 postcards.

Printed by Plus Print Ltd. on Favini Citrus Crush Uncoated 350gsm.

Hand wrapped in Tracing Paper Acid-Free 65gsm.

Featuring poetry excerpts by Paula Meehan.

Available for purchase at Hopeless Botanics, either in store or online.

09/06/2026

This year’s addition to my ongoing ‘50 Year Series’ (working title!) featured on DIVISARE

Photo Essay by Ste Murray

29/11/2025

EARMARK screens on Aer Lingus for the next couple of months

21/11/2025

Excited to have images from my documentation of Dún Laoghaire Baths published as one of The Library Project editions.

I’ve long admired these publications from Thelibraryproject so to be have my name on one is a great honour. The publications are accessible and adventurous, for both artists and audiences.

This series depicts the ever-changing life of Dún Laoghaire Baths in Dublin, Ireland. The seaside Baths were refurbished by dlr architects with A2 Architects after being in a derelict state since their closure in 1997. Prior to this, the Baths had been a paramount social hub for the city since opening to the public in the 1890s.
Light hits the Baths in a sculptural manner, waves crash against the layered mass – allowing for a myriad of subtle patterns. The seawater dries from the surfaces, its changing state reminding us of the concrete’s formation process.
It is this shapeshifting process that the series aims to capture – a cross-section of texture and time, an interplay of light and life. An ephemeral place, standing still and strong, never quite the same.

It was great to dance with Angel from PhotoIreland on the sequencing for this one; learning and listening. Thanks too to Linn, Muireann, and Christina for their help on this series over the years.

For those that are not familiar with the project, TLP Editions is an ongoing collection, produced and designed by PhotoIreland, that presents work by contemporary artists in the form of uncomplicated publications. These are available through The Library Project in-store and online. All and any funds generated by the project go to producing more copies of the publications, ensuring we can keep promoting the artists and practices represented. These editions are regularly showcased and donated to international events and festivals, such as the Icelandic Photography Festival recently. In addition, TLP Editions also grace some important shelves and collections, including that of the Hasselblad Foundation Library and the Martin Parr Foundation.

Published by PhotoIreland
Edition of 200
Softcover
32 pages
148 x 210 mm

20/11/2025

This is finishing in 10 days. I’m lucky enough to have a smattering of work on display as part of the various exhibits in the venue. Definitely worth a look!

14/11/2025

Thank you ArchEyes Architecture + Design for sharing the latest instalment in my 50 Year Series, this time looking at a building from 1975