James and Karla Murray are professional photographers and authors. Their bestselling and critically acclaimed book STORE FRONT: The Disappearing Face of New York as well as their graffiti publications, Broken Windows, Burning New York and Miami Graffiti have set the standard for urban documentation.

James and Karla Murray have lectured extensively on the subject of the plight of New York City’s mom and pop stores at venues including The New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. They have also appeared live on prime time NBC- New York Television’s “Around Town” with Cat Greenleaf, Leonard Lopate's show on NPR, on Harry Allen’s program “Nonfiction” on WBAI-NY, on NHK Television in Japan and were the subject of NHK’s documentary program “NY Streets”. Their Store Front photography was also the subject of a 6-page article in Rolling Stone-Germany and has appeared in global publications including Saveur, Print Magazine, Stern, Lufthansa, Die Zeit, and Der Spiegel.

Their work has been the subject of exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society and the Brooklyn Historical Society, and is part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society. They are represented by CLIC Gallery in NYC, East Hampton NY, Cannes and St. Barthelemy, FWI. James and Karla live in New York City and Miami with their dog Tabasco.