Ken Murphy

Bio of Kenneth F. Murphy

A.K.A. Ken Murphy, Photographer

Ken was born in Frankfurt, Germany on Feb.10, 1954, to Helen Dedeaux Murphy and Dan Beverly Murphy of Bay St.Louis and Gulfport, Mississippi, respectively. He is the second child of eight, 1st son of 5.

On March 8, 1971, at the ripe old age of 17 years and 26 days, after dropping out of high school, Ken entered the US Army, clueless as to what was in store for his future.
Ken soon found himself stationed at Fort Knox, KY as a “Tank Crewman”. Ken's first overseas assignment was to Camp Casey Korea, where he served as a 17-year-old Tank Commander.

In 1976, while serving as a Tank Commander in Mannheim, Germany, Ken lost his right index finger to a Hoffman (training) Device, a tank gun simulator on an M60A1 Battle Tank, while engaging in the last 10 minutes of a two-week-long war game.

Since Ken lost his trigger finger, he could no longer serve in a combat position so he was reassigned to a hobby shop at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, as an Arts & Crafts Instructor.

There, he discovered and fell in love with photography. Within six months, Ken had placed third in an Army-wide photography contest with a color photograph entitled "Corn Shed," taken in the f...

BFA Degree / Narrative, Documentary, and Editorial Photography / Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1986.

Ken is also part of a two-person show titled; Cast of Blues with Sharron McConnell, (a blind artist that makes "Life Casts" of today's Blues Artists) sponsored by the Arts Alliance of America that has been traveling the USA since 2014 and will travel until 2022.

https://eusa.org/exhibition/a-cast-of-blues/