A few words about some of the galleries – i hope to put up some more text here in a while, probably written by other people if i can persuade them to do it (I hate writing about my photos, myself).
Correfoc!
A Catalan traditional celebration, usually performed during the “festa major” of a town, in which local and imported teams dressed as devils cavort and dance during a hail of fire-crackers. Although it has its roots in medieval traditions of “devil’s balls”, the current practice dates to the 1970’s. Being spectacular, correfocs are amongst the most widely photographed celebrations in Catalunya. In this ongoing series, I am less concerned with documenting and more concerned with finding images that capture the feeling, particularly when displayed as large prints.
Dreamwalk
A walk thru someone else’s dreams…I very seldom remember my dreams and i don’t have the capacity to visualize when awake so even if i remember them it is only narratively and not visually. I’m not sure how rare that is or whether it is evidence of brain-damage or whatever. It is what it is. This sequence of images is how i imagine a visual dream to be.
Mysterious Everyday
The extraordinary, surpassing visual strangeness of the world was my initial motivation to become a photographer. Or rather, the fact that many people tell me that they don’t see the world this way or don’t notice these details. Anyway, I hope that maybe one or two of these images will stop you in your tracks the way the originals did me.
Close-up
An ongoing series using macro photography to make non-scientific photos (i hesitate to say “art”, i’m really just disclaiming any of the common goals of macro-photography to make “useful” photos).
Portraits
Portraits 2: Café Slàvia
Concerts
Street
Death and Churches, Mexico
I spent almost all of 2004 in Mexico, based out of Guanajuato and travelling solo or with Mexican or extranjero friends. Out of the thousands of images that i shot there this collection represents one or two recurring themes to which i was drawn, largely connected with mortality and Christian and indigenous attitudes to it.
Tan and Dye, Fez
A short study of one of many, many leatherworks in the Medina of Fez, Morocco.
Moore Street, Dublin
This is an ongoing, multi-year work, begun in 2006 with the realization that the previous ten years of Moore St would have made for a most extraordinary document of Ireland’s transformation from an almost completely homogeneous society and net exporter of people to the present situation with 10% of the population immigrants coming from China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, etc etc. Moore Street was the historical market shopping center of old Dublin with fruit and veg and fish stalls run by families who had had the “lets” for generations. Almost all that is gone now, and already the wave that followed, of immigrant owned shops and businesses, is receding as these businesses relocate in the face of a planned, gargantuan, new development. Even what remains such as the butcher’s shops shows the signs of the changes: welcome signs in 10 languages, staff predominently ethnically Chinese.
Horizons
On the whole i don’t do a lot of landscape photography, but i do have this recurring interest in the edge of the land, the framing and the relation between land and sky in a photograph on the occasions when those elements seem to me to be defining a place most particularly.