My practice is grounded in long-term engagement with people and environments that I often have personal ties to. I am drawn to themes of home, memory, class and the quiet effects of social and economic change that can too often unfold slowly and out of sight. Through analog processes I work intuitively allowing space for natural interactions and unplanned moments. Whether taking a portrait, photographing a space or documenting a fleeting moment, I approach each situation with care and respect. I'm not interested in spectacle, but rather in what lingers in the traces of what's been lost, held onto or quietly endured.
How we live
A long-term contemporary documentary project exploring the instability of Dublin’s renting culture through the lens of young adults navigating a housing crisis. Through a combination of candid 35mm black and white photographs of social moments, and atmospheric medium-format colour images of shared domestic living spaces and those who inhabit them, the work reflects the transience, frustration and resilience of a generation denied stability. Rooted in my own experience and the lives of those closest to me, ‘How we live’, traces how economic forces have shaped our sense of home, agency and adulthood. In a culture of reactionary escapism, where leaving parties have replaced housewarmings and shared spaces feel increasingly impersonal, the project documents the ever-present sense of temporality that we all carry. This is an intimate record of how the housing crisis has shaped not just where we live, but how we live, how we love, cope and come undone.
