Twenty-nine Kilometres from Dublin

This series of photographs explores a typical commuter town in Ireland, its landscape, and the young people who have grown up there. Dunshaughlin in County Meath is a town in transition, both in terms of its landscape and its inhabitants, there is an increasing blurring of boundaries between rural, urban and industrial topographies. This work explores new visual conceptualisations of a commuter town that, in essence, is exemplary of many towns all over Ireland. Rural landscapes give way to suburbanisation and technology parks with their proximity to the M3, airport and Dublin Port. Looking at the photographs of these young men and women there is a sense that they are also in transition, the carefree days of their youth has passed, replaced by an uncertain future, a desire to leave home and seek a new life, a job in Dublin, Boston or Sydney? Or to continue the certainty of living in a small town in Ireland?