My photographic origin-story, as I like to tell it:

“I became interested in photography at the age of 7 (1968) watching my mother use her Kodak Retina 35mm camera on family vacations, day trips to New York City, and around the house. But I fell in love with photography in 1976 when she gave me my first camera: a Kodak Instamatic X-15 using 126 film cartridges! Nothing and no subject was safe after that.”

— Russell E. Murray aka “Rusty”

My full name is Russell E. Murray, making R.E.M. my initials. Of course, “REM” is also the acronym for Rapid Eye Movement — the eye/brain activity indicating deep-sleep dreaming is in-progress — the place where the best (and most interesting) thoughts and visions happen. So, in the spirit of R.E.M. (dreams, not the band), my photography and video work is posted to some feeds under a pseudonym combining REM+IMAGES = REMAGES.

remages = photography & imagery to delight the senses, confound the mind, evoke feelings, provoke reactions.

• Focusing on: portraits, street photography, artful abstracts, beautiful and bizarre aspects of everyday people and things.
• Drawn to: unusual points-of-view, new perspectives, alternate takes, the-space-between, things unseen, the essence of things.
• Tools used: instant, film, digital devices — new, vintage, hi-res, lo-res, old-school, new-school, retro, hi-tech — anything I can get my hands on to chase and capture the light!

A few other places you can see my work:

Still images (photos)
Tumblr
Instagram
Flickr
500px
Behance
Unsplash
Medium

Sparkling images (videos)
YouTube
TikTok
Vimeo