Loren Murphy, former In-Sight Student, at Boston University
by Erin Barnard

Loren Murphy is entering her junior year at Boston University’s College of Communication where she is majoring in Photojournalism. Three years after taking her first class at In-Sight, Loren still thinks of the program as her “home away from home.”

After having taken a photography class at Brattleboro Union High School, Loren came to In-Sight for the opportunity to continue exploring photography during her senior year. The program at In-Sight encouraged her to shoot and print whenever she wanted. She remembers In-Sight as a place where she had the freedom to pursue what most interested her while “always receiving constructive feedback in a very positive way.” Loren reflects on the many In-Sight lab hours she attended as the most fundamental aspect of her early experience with photography. She says, “it was during the open lab times that I first began to develop expressing myself through photography.”

Loren’s exposure to photography at BUHS and In-Sight has led her to her college major. She says, “right before I went to BU I realized I didn’t want to be a journalism major – I wanted to do photography. So I switched to photojournalism.” Since then Loren has been in Boston working toward entering the field of fashion photography. This summer, like the last, returning to In-Sight was one of the main reasons Loren came back to Brattleboro. “The darkroom is my favorite place, and In-Sight feels like home.”