Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, No. 20-31, 2021. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Graveyard figure, No. 60-36, 2020. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Casa de Música, Porto, No. 137-06, 2018. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Bridge Abutments, Guildford, No. 04-37, 2020. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Self Portrait with the interior of my Dads shed, No. 20-01, 2017. Analogue image shot using a Mamiya 7ii and 80mm lens with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Scaffolding, Limerick, No. 23-21, 2021. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Pub window view, Guidford, No. 04-05, 2020. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Graffiti Engel, Liberty Lane, Dublin, No. 06-38, 2020. Analogue image shot using a Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Lone figure, Dublin, No. D-36, 2017. Analogue image shot using Canon 1N camera with HP5 400 photographic film.
Blackshade Bridge, Meath. 2018. Digital image.
Abandoned Gantry Crane, Kildare, 2018. Digital image.
Collapsed wall at Carbury Castle, Kildare, 2019. Digital image.
Back garden, Cashal road, Crumlin, Dublin, No. A-01, 2017. Analogue image shot using a Canon 1N camera with HP5 400 photographic film.
Casa de Música, Porto, No. 137-05, 2018. Analogue image shot using a Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Gleensk Viaduct, Kerry, No. 60-20, 2020. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Utility Pole, Kildare, No. 13-11, 2020. Analogue image shot using a Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, No. 20-29, 2021. Analogue image shot using a Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Curragh Chase House, Limerick, No. 26-12, Early 2022. Pentax Spotmatic SP, 50mm lens + TriX film
Cascais, Portugal, No. 26-26, May 2022. Pentax Spotmatic SP, 50mm lens + TriX film
Hamburg, No. 18-13, March 2023. Canon 1n, 50mm lens + TriX film
Hamburg, No. 18-17, March 2023. Canon 1n, 50mm lens + TriX film
Reinforced concrete bridge corbel supporting precast concrete slabs to underside of old Dublin road, Kildare, No. 07-33, 2021. Analogue image shot using Pentax Spotmatic camera with Tri-X 400 photographic film.
Hamburg, No. 18-18, March 2023. Canon 1n, 50mm lens + TriX film
Hamburg, No. 18-26, March 2023. Canon 1n, 50mm lens + TriX film
Hamburg, No. 18-32, March 2023. Canon 1N, 50mm lens + TriX film
Engineers Eye [Working Title]
Prior to my move into the visual arts in 2018 I worked as a civil and structural engineer and my visual enquiries into the built environment draws heavily from this engineering background. The knowledge and skills I developed give me a very specific eye for detail and design, and an innate understanding of the hidden structures and forces at play behind the facade of buildings.
I adopt a dual approach when photographing the built environment. On one hand I use an instinctive street photography approach leaning on the idea of the flaneur as well as a slower and more considered approach similar to my landscape bog work. To date I’ve shot in both colour and monochrome using analog and digital formats to interrogate the built environment and explore options and processes.
Funding from an Arts Council’s Agility Award in 2021 allowed me to undertake an initial period of research for this work. Once my ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ project is complete I intend to develop new work focusing on the built environment and explore deeper into the overlap of my engineering background, photographic practice and sense of self.
Check out my ‘Façadier’ series for more recent work in this vein.