December morning. Galway, 2022.
TALE OF TWO TOWNS
The ongoing series consists of black-and-white photographs captured mainly in the cities of Galway and Limerick.
For an outsider, the laid back towns of West of Ireland have a timeless character. Streets are stained. Marks of life can be seen on houses and buildings. Pleasant untidiness and randomness prevails. Apart from the cautious developments, few odd luxury stores and trendy coffee shops, tidy middle class conformity and gentrification are still hold at bay - deported to suburbs where the emerald green lawn is a measure of rectitude. The beauty is unpolished and it is accidental, but it is palpable.
Things are left - or kept - as they are. Is it indifference, obstinacy or rare respect towards the past? German philosophy has a word for it, Gelassenheit. Being should be permitted to prevail, to be.
William Street West. Galway, 2024.
Reflections. Galway, 2023.
The stare. Galway, 2022.
Rays of light. Galway, 2022.
No entry. Galway, 2022.
Limerick Blues, 2022.
Abandoned train car. County Clare, 2022.
Remembrance - A mural of a boxer Kevin Sheehy. Limerick, 2023.
Tags. Limerick, 2022.
Leather and steel. Limerick, 2022.
Good times. Galway, 2022.
Claddagh Basin. Galway, 2022.
Crane Bar. Galway, 2024.
Abyss stares back. Galway, 2023.
City of steel shutters. Limerick, 2022.
Three eyed man. Galway, 2024.
A mannequin. Galway, 2023.
Geometry. Galway, 2024.
To the Moon. Galway, 2024.