Unphotographable Michael David Murphy is a photographer with a long record of beautiful and inquisitive work. But he gets all the more intriguing when you wander through his collection of photos he never took. This "catalog of exceptional mistakes" records the times when he forgot his camera, "wasn't brave enough" to click the shutter, or had the dignity and sensitivity to let an image escape him. From a crippled boy in Ethiopia to a soldier in Myanmar to a surprisingly warm San Francisco night, these un-photos hail from around the world. They include humorous misses, lost political shots, and star-studded withdrawals. Each is composed with the eye of a photographer and the skill of a poet (Michael, there's another career waiting for you out there). And each attests to the moments—increasingly rare in our Flickrized, digitized, uploaded world—when you don't want to see life through a viewfinder. (in Photography)
