Hello, my name is John Harrington and I am Sean’s current intern. I am an Advertising Major at Florida State University and projected to graduate this 2020 Fall. I picked up a camera for the first time in Fall of 2016 of my senior year of high school. I started taking photos every day, for events, sports games, and anything for the school’s yearbook. I researched like hell on anything and everything photo related and was immediately hooked on taking photos that were cool or people liked.
Dance photoshoot we did these two talented sisters.
I met Sean at my alum high school. I graduated Class of 2017 from Choctawhatchee High School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. After I graduated, I stayed to do my AA for one year. That fall of 2017, I was helping the yearbook class at Choctaw with their photo work and the teacher told us we had a photographer coming to speak to the class and I was to go lead him to the class. Once I brought Sean back to the class, I was blown away by looking at all the photos he had taken. He spoke to the class for about 40 minutes and then the bell rang for the end of the day but Sean and I stayed after and spoke for about two hours about photos. At the end of the conversation, Sean asked if I wanted to come to assist on a photoshoot three days later and I said yes immediately. The photoshoot was in a hurricane where I’m holding an umbrella and a battery pack in the pouring rain coming in sideways. That didn’t scare me off and was hooked on the rush of the shoot because I didn’t know taking photos could give me that feeling!
“I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and this truck is really big” 
Basketball photoshoot I prepared that Sean supervised (thats me hanging around) 
Outake from a dental shoot where I am operating on Jason Medina 
Liz Van Dyke and I on a jetski for a ResortQuest photoshoot 
Helping out with Choctawhatchee Bay Alliance (CBA) 
This was taken after Sean and I’s first photoshoot.
Now its 2020 and I am still here. I’ve been brought into the Murphy family enough that people that didn’t know Sean and I’s relationship thought he was my dad, thus you will hear me refer to him as “pops” in the majority of situations. Its been an interesting 2.5 years working on chill photoshoots for his friends and the opposite of working on high-end production sets for clients. It hasn’t been easy, but there’s a reason why I’m still here. It’s an incredible opportunity for someone from my area to get. I get to learn and perfect my passion from someone who is also extremely passionate about it and I have gained a small family from it. I’ve learned the technicals, I’ve learned what not to do on set, I’ve learned life shit, I’ve learned stuff I shouldn’t have learned so early in my career and more. But, there is always gonna be more learning and I love to know what is going on anywhere I am, so I’m ready.
I think why I am most excited about doing this blog among other things I help Sean with, is this is a record of my growth and progress whether it be photo related or my writing skills and show the growth from learning and working with Sean. Stay tuned for the next post!