About Cordia Murphy Photography

My passion for photography began in the digital age but my passion for beauty has been a part of me for all of my life.  As a younger woman I worked for two large advertising agencies in New York and was exposed to some of the best commercial photographers in the world.

I began photographing professionally in 1999 taking portrait shots of executives at Craighead Publishing in Darien, CT. In 2000 through 2006, I was staff photographer for Stamford Hospital and took portrait, event and advertising shots.  I now have my own studio and take formal and environmental photographs of children, families and executives.

I began photographing nature in 1999 with landscape views of my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.  This developed into sea and bird photography which developed into flower photography which is now developing into an unusual ways to depict portraiture and still life.  Many of my photographs are printed on fine art paper and I use chalk and pencils to give them depth and artistry.

My formal art background has been as a metal sculptress at Silvermine in New Canaan, an art and psychology student at Mount Holyoke and an art therapy masters candidate and communications masters recipient at the College of New Rochelle.  I am a self-taught photographer and use only the manual setting on my cameras to recreate the beauty of what inspires me.

I do sell my work and have recently been asked to hang my photographs in several organizations to support their "going green" effort.  I have exhibited in several juried and non-juried shows in New York and Connecticut and at the United Nations in 2008.


Exhibits and Auctions

2008

United Nations
Connecticut Ballet, Summer Evening of Art and Music
Stamford Hospital Dream Ball

 2009

Exhibit in "The Cafe" in Stamford, Connecticut
Laurel House Fundraising Silent Auction
Paint the Town Pink 2009 raffle prizes
Marshlands Conservancy in Rye, New York

 2010

The Medicine Shop
Art Show and Sale, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Juried Exhibit, Greenwich Art Society
UConn Juried Art Show, Stamford, CT

2011

Rye Free Reading Room, A Palette of Rye, Rye, New York

Current

Barnum Financial Group (Met Life), High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT  (Chairperson for Greenwich Art Society) until the end of August 2011

Greenwich Historical Society, Cos Cob, CT until end of June 2011