Daniel Murphy - BA (Hons) Photography
Touching Distance
Touching Distance acts as a personal meditation on the sense of uncertainty that often accompanies a transitional stage of life—where youth still lingers, close enough to touch, while adulthood becomes inescapable. When I set out to create this project, my primary aim was to make something that felt deliberate, intimate, and executed with care. With hopes of building a career in fashion and portrait photography, I viewed this as a good chance to produce work that is more artistically considered while embracing a more contemporary visual presentation.
The images—comprised of portraits and scenes from familiar, everyday environments—capture subtle shifts in identity, emotion, and presence. Neither celebratory nor nostalgic, the work sits gently with contradiction: the longing to hold on, the impulse to move forward, and the quiet realization that both are happening at once.
Created as the final submission for my undergraduate studies, Touching Distance has been realised into book form - a visual essay on maturity, memory, and the spaces we inhabit as we try to understand who we are becoming. The book is available to purchase on my website.
