April 4, 2024

Camera / Technology / Ideology

As artificial Intelligence is becoming more integrated into everyday life we should be wary of promises that it day it can make certain processes more efficient. In the video I take a look back on the camera as a new technology in the late 19th…
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January 22, 2024

The Portrait and the Self in Corporate Photography

Photographic portraits are often deployed in commercial photography campaigns and are used in the formation of identity of the worker. I want to focus on a Manpower campaign that was run a few years ago. Each advertisement (two of which you can see here, as…
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June 25, 2019

Looking at Images of Urban Space: A Lefebvrian approach

For a long time I have been obsessed with urban space. The obsession has, perhaps, been brought on by spending my twenties living and working in Dublin city during a period of immense urbanisation as part of the Celtic Tiger. In that time, and through…
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May 7, 2019

Photography and ‘The Market’

How does the market for photography distort the meaning within images, creating its own narrative in the process? As photographers, we are often expected or sometimes even required to sell the work that we make.
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October 5, 2018

The role of the image in the financialization of space

Financialization changes the nature of space and seeks to gain control over our bodies.
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April 2, 2018

Who is ‘The Keeper’?

The character is also an echo from my own past as a former corporate employee, while the briefcase, belonging to my father, is another icon of the corporation.
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February 9, 2014

The Real and Reality in Constructed Photography

I feel that it is not always possible to use straight photography to document facts. So how ‘real’ is the ‘reality’ of constructed photography?
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February 9, 2014

Eugenics

There was a time when one may have been asked to provide a photograph with one’s CV/resume. Why did companies ask for this? So they can judge you partially based on how you look in the photograph. The photograph becomes an index to your personality.
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