About This Journal

My name is Jordan Naholowaa Murph, I am a hapa photographer from the island of Hawaiʻi.

My photography journey began at boarding school on Oʻahu and continued at UH Mānoa at our student newspaper Ka Leo ʻO Hawaiʻi. I focused on sports, photojournalism, and documentary photography in college, which kick started my freelance career.

Immediately after graduating, I moved to the continent to work as Sports Illustrated staff photographer John W. McDonough's First Assistant. Lighting arenas and covers portraits, syncing a dozen cameras to a single strobe pop, air cargo-ing pallets of camera gear across the country multiple times a week for the most important match ups, doing things in catwalks that would make OSHA shut down the magazine, and experiencing the weight thrown around when S.I. rolled into cities across the globe.

We were called Lighting Techs. I was lucky to have been the last young photographer brought on and trained in those old ways and to wear that badge, and I'm extremely grateful to have been given and entrusted with that knowledge.

I went on to design, implement, and manage the first photography department at Angels Baseball and spent time serving as the Photography Editor & Archivist, and then as the Team Photographer. I've spent the last ten years in commercial and editorial photography, and consulting across a number of technology and marketing domains.

This is my journal. Mahalo for being here.

Aloha,
Jordan