AIPF Panel
Old and abandoned buildings have been attracting me for several years now and I’ve spent many happy hours photographing their interiors; but it was only recently that I began to think of it as a project.
In visiting these sites I often wonder what stories remain untold; what lives started and ended here.
I have sought to show that abandonment occurs at every stratum of society and my panel includes images from a convent, a linen mill, a large farm house and other, more humble dwellings.
I am intrigued by the things that are left behind; the little mementos of lives forgotten and abandoned.
It is important to me that these sites are respected, so I bring nothing in and take nothing out. The scenes shown are authentic and not posed in any way, but have been photographed as they were found.
This was the statement that accompanied the successful Associate Distinction Panel with the Irish Photographic Society in April 2011
In visiting these sites I often wonder what stories remain untold; what lives started and ended here.
I have sought to show that abandonment occurs at every stratum of society and my panel includes images from a convent, a linen mill, a large farm house and other, more humble dwellings.
I am intrigued by the things that are left behind; the little mementos of lives forgotten and abandoned.
It is important to me that these sites are respected, so I bring nothing in and take nothing out. The scenes shown are authentic and not posed in any way, but have been photographed as they were found.
This was the statement that accompanied the successful Associate Distinction Panel with the Irish Photographic Society in April 2011