A selection of work from my ongoing project Baggot Street Bridge is currently on show at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar as part of it's Showcase Exhibition.
The project has been shortlisted for the Gallery of Photography Artist's Award. You can vote for the Showcase People's Award at the gallery and the exhibition will run until January 30th 2011.
Baggot Street Bridge is a long-term project that attempts to capture private emotions in a public setting.
It comprises a series of portraits of individuals caught in transit across Dublin’s Baggot Street Bridge. Shot from the four bases of the structure, subjects are seen in elevation on the crest of the bridge. The portraits are uncontrived and the subjects are, to the greatest degree possible, unwitting.
The bridge provides a constant and familiar place of anchorage, upon which a diversity of emotion is visible. It is through the juxtaposition of this typically crowded urban environment with the singularity of the individuals that Baggot Street Bridge finds the focus of its theme: the intrigue of impenetrable introspection.
Visible clues to the subjects’ everyday realties are intentionally avoided; their professions, destinations and more remaining unexplained; leaving the viewer open to query each untold story, and each personal emotion. These stories and these emotions are what we see and don’t see every day, with each of us acting intermittently as both subject and viewer.
Baggot Street Bridge, North
Baggot Street Bridge, East
Baggot Street Bridge, South
Baggot Street Bridge, West
