Photographs taken in my car

I like these images, but I'm not really sure what I'm doing with them....

New night images

Limerick with my digital camera

Now

So I'm getting a bit confused about the basis of my work is it enough to just plan to take photos at night in isolated spaces? I'm thinking maybe I should research the idea of fear more and delve into that pathway look at artists who use fear as an emotion in their work and watch horror films with a strong use of suspense and fear. Any ideas as to where to look?

Butler Gallery

Just to let everyone know the Butler Gallery is exhibiting the work of Declan Rooney a performance artist from Ireland that is now based in Berlin. His first performance has already happened last Saturday but he will be doing three more on the 26th of June, the 10th of July and the  17th of July from 1-5pm. He works with different groups and his first performance involved local skaters, he set up a ramp for them and music and they were allowed skate around the gallery while he preformed around them. Take a look if your around Kilkenny. There is a projector in the gallery showing his last performance with all the props he used in the space as well.

New work

I hope to be putting up new work soon and possibly some old work I never got around to putting up but my internet resources are limited! Also apologies for the last post I had to delete it because it came up all askewed, not sure why but hopefully it won't be a problem again.

Robert frank

I've been meaning to look up this photographer for god knows how long and even though it has been claimed by many that he is the father of contemporary photography there is not one book on him in our library! His stuff is gorgeous and it is really the old style I love so I'm considering buying his renowned book The Americans, all the images I've seen from it look amazing and £18.00 ain't that bad...we'll see how the funds are!

Anyway here are some of his beautiful photographs..

John Gossage

This is another photographer I've just discovered and love. If I keep looking through all his photographs I'll have 100 pages of research of just his stuff so I'm stopping myself now and showing him to you all.

He has a similiar aim to myself with his photographs; he examines spaces and uses the emotional context of their history.

Here is a statement I found on him that seems to outline the aim of his work:
John Gossage (American, 1946- ) is an artist who makes history present in photographs. He photographs places and sites that tell an everyday story: paths worn through abandoned tracts of land, corners where debris collects, markings on a wall, a table after a meal. Gossage photographs that which has just occurred to remind us that we may have already forgotten it happened or that we were there. By asking us look at what we have misplaced or abandoned he brings us face to face with the present as it becomes history. Throughout the 1980s Berlin became Gossage's overriding focus. Berlin, with its Wall, forgotten tracts of land, unwanted histories - both forgotten and remembered - became the place where Gossage discovered the ideas that have come to mark his personalized style of photograhic storytelling. The art from this period is arguable his most important and has unquestionable influenced all his subsequent work.