November 2020 we find ourselves in New York City, another photographer at the helm but this is a very different story. Big family drama is brewing and
Christian Murdoch has returned to the fold just in time for it to happen. However to get the full backstory on this charming Brit we are going to leave it to his sister to set the scene.
Christian Murdoch; a story by his twin sister Gayle Murdoch (the cuter twin but we won't go there.) SO what can I say about my twin brother Christian? Well firstly that he's been an ass from day one, quite literally he came out ass first into the world completely ignoring the gentlemanly thing of ladies first. Nope he had to be born first, I am pretty sure he came out giving me the middle finger because he was victorious in our race to being born. That's okay though, he's an adorable little shit so I forgive my twin brother anything and the two of us since that day had been two peas in a pod. Along with our big brother Bastain we had a pretty idyllic childhood with parents who loved us, family holidays abroad, friends at school, a bright future. We were a happy family and the three of us as close as siblings could be. Christian and I were the very best of friends telling each other secrets in the night.
That all ended though when our parents died. We were only thirteen years old. It felt as if the colour in the world had gone out. From our little home in Oxford we we're moved with an aunt to live in Edinburgh and honestly we all hated it. There was no fun, there was no trips out, Christian said once it felt as if we were a burden now, no longer a joy. Our close happy little unit was no longer close or happy and by the time we were seventeen I don't think Christian and I could have been any further apart. Didn't help that Bastian moved away for Uni, still Scotland, but he didn't come home that often. That affected him a lot and I kinda found a boyfriend and made him feel more alone. He was the one that didn't go off the rails though, he felt very left to his own devices and in a charity shop he found an old camera, buying it and fixing it up at home. It took some time to figure it all out, Christian went off taking photos and turned his bedroom into a red room. The first few were kinda crap, he'd shown them to me and there were plenty of fingers over the lenses moments, but after a while they started to get good. Real good! Things weren't perfect but he was finding a passion. I kinda messed things up again for a while, but that is a story for another day.
After things went down Christian basically did a peace out and started wandering the world like the nomad he was destined to be, just him and his camera. Melbourne gave him a chance to really learn his art but then he went to pretty much half of the countries on the planet for his art, his pictures were in any decent magazine you picked up, each and every one of them completely stunning. He was an artist in his own right with the pictures that he took. I couldn't have been more proud of him. The dummy even went and won an award which meant he was FINALLY coming to New York!
Okay so New York didn't start off the best for my twin, he kinda got mugged on his first night there. Big brother had to go pick him and he had to meet his teenage niece for the first time looking a bit banged up.
BUT he did meet a cute cop and now has a girlfriend out of it. He's also found out he's going to be an Uncle again, twice, so maybe for the first time in over fifteen years the three of us will be close again and in one place for more than a couple of days. Things are looking good for Christian and that's why he's Character of the month. Oh and congrats Mel (
Yelena Belova) for playing my awesome twin!