Alex Murphy is a photographer based across Bristol and London who's work predominantly documents the queer community. With a love for shooting film and capturing people's essence in their portrait - their style, attitude, and piercing eyes, the tattoos through the mesh of their shirt and the outfit they safety pinned together.
Contact: alexmurphyphoto@gmail.com
Print and Online Features:
BRICKS Magazine, Trans Rights Protest - 2025 - link
Dance Policy, Issue 8 Print - 2025 - link
Dazed Magazine, Winter Print Issue - 2024
BUILDHOLLYWOOD - 2024 - link
Dazed, Billboards Takeover - 2024 - link
BRICKS Magazine, London Trans Pride - 2024 - link
NME Magazine - Abubakar Salim - 2024 - link
Femme Dyke Magazine, Issue 02 - 2023 - Print - link
Playthey Magazine, Issue 04 - 2023 - Print - link
Bristol 24/7 - ‘Camp Apocalyptic’ Queer Performance Rave Platforms LGBTQ+ Artists'- link
I Wanna Be Magazine - 2023 -Print- link
Neighbourhood Magazine's creative database - 2023 - link
NME Magazine - Leith Ross - 2023 - link
The Face 'March Madness' - 2023 - link
i-D Japan - 'My Queer Gaze in Photos' - 2022 - link
Exhibitions:
Generation Electric Vol. 2 - Lost Horizon - 2024
Night and Day - Cafe Kino - 2024
Conqueer - Loco Klub - 2024
Generation Electric - The Island - 2024
Make Space - University of York - 2023
PAPPED - Kit Form Gallery by Doozy Magazine - 2023
Fold - Degree show - Arnolfini Gallery - 2023
Fold - Degree show - Copeland Gallery - 2023
Communal Throb - Dance Policy x Noods Radio -Centrespace Gallery - 2023
Camp Good Times by Dirty Spread Collective - Dareshack - 2022
Coterie - UWE Bower Ashton Campus - 2022
Select Clients:
BRICKS Magazine
NME Magazine
Polydor Records
Dyke Digital
Phoebe Green
G(end)er Swap
Soft Butch
Fagbutt
Tokky Horror
Queerky
Interviews:
Noods Levels, Video Interview - 2025 - link
Night and Day Documentary by Kate Donnelly - 2024
i-D Japan - 'My Queer Gaze in Photos' - 2022
Guest Speaker:
PAPPED - Kit Form Gallery hosted by Doozy Magazine, discussing queer nightlife photography in Bristol and my series 'Utopia' - 2023
University of the West of England - presenting and discussing my series 'Utopia' with third year Photography BA students - 2023
Photobooks:
Utopia (2023) First Edition Hard cover - Sold out. Second Edition coming soon.
QUEER (2022)
Self (2021)
Education:
BA Photography - University of The West of England, First Class (2023)
