A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Murray is a photographer of spaces. Whether on the infinite salt plains of central Australia, or interpreting contemporary urban creations of Australia's leading architects and designers, his bold and seamless compositions stand testament to a unique vision. Murray's skills lie in photographing subjects that are too big to light using conventional studio lighting. By using ambient light the resulting imagery is better than could ever be achieved by employing artificial lighting. This doesn't mean that no lights are used, it means that the subjects are interpreted in their optimum state then photographic lighting is used only to enhance: to subtly but powerfully tell the story. Murray's clients include Mirvac, Ivy, Establishment Sydney, Belle Magazine, Elle Décor Italy, Vogue Living Magazine, Bulgari Hotels and Resorts, Intercontinental, Faena Hotel Buenos Aires, Monument Magazine, and Australian Architectural Review. Murray's methods in the commercial sphere have grown out of techniques used in the production of his internationally acclaimed art works. Murray's first solo show at Hamilton's Gallery London sold out as did his work at Paris Photo 06 at The Louvre.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.