jimandkarla

Location: NYC

Gender: Female

Relationship: Married

Favourite Music: Drum and Bass, House/Techno/Electro, Breaks, Dubstep

Favourite Nights: Renegade Hardware, Ram Records

About Me: We are professional photographers and authors whose work has been published in the landmark books on New York graffiti art, "Broken Windows-Graffiti NYC" (Gingko Press 2002) and "Burning New York" (Gingko Press 2006). Our photographs have been exhibited at The New-York Historical Society in New York City and in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area and Miami. Our work is housed in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C. and the New York Public Library. Our photographs and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Peel Magazine, Mass Appeal and Time Out New York. We were also the subject of a documentary program, "NY Streets" on NHK (japan broadcasting corporation) in 2007. Our upcoming book, "STOREFRONT: The Disappearing Face of New York City " (Gingko Press) will be published in the Fall of 2008. Past clients have included Altoids- The Curiously Strong Mints, Embedded Music artist Bisc1 and Mass Appeal Magazine. We have a photographic installation currently on extended display in one of the famed art rooms at The Carlton Arms Hotel in New York City located at the corner of East 25th Street and 3rd Avenue. We live in New York City "From the ashes of the 60s to the dust of Ground Zero, New York graffiti has magnetized and polarized, rocked and shocked. When the hot-eyed and restless ride the city's edge to turn dead walls into worlds of color, motion, and passion, Jim and Karla Murray capture their visions and voices with a fire to match. Don't blink." Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation