Lost in the streets lately with the FujiXE1. So light and easy to have on me at all times. Like a new extension to my arm. I am so happy that I am part of that group who captures Dublin, and I feel like lately I am really being noticed for it. There is a large amount of great photographers in Dublin who do what I do and as a whole, its our job to capture Dublin at her best.
Someone recently asked me, “are you addicted to social media?” Of course I had to say yes because I am on it every day. I’m not looking at it as a negative thing though. I’m looking at that in itself being an art form. I am posting daily for others. Bringing that image into some one elses day to give them something to view while they are on the bus or on their break and putting them into a scene that they are far away from whilst scrolling. Thinking of friends who don’t go near the city centre who might enjoy looking at these images I create and try figure out where the image might have been captured.
This is Dublin, this is what people want to see, this is what tourists love so much and ever since I can remember having a camera in my hand, this is what I love so much. I do have dreams in my head of living in another country strolling around NYC or London or Barcelona or even Berlin, but I really do think I would miss this city immensly. A few years back I would have said NAH i’l be gone in a heart beat, but getting a little older now i’m seeing Dublin as it should be seen. Through the eyes of a tourist maybe, or just through my own eyes with a fonder tie to the city.
Hidden bits to the city or even just the normal side streets off Georges street with its random stickers, art and punters from Berlin, I’m getting used to it and feeling safe around it. I’m snapping it and you don’t even know.
Do you do what I do ? I don’t even have a plan, Just get up get ready and leave the gaf with a camera in my hand. Start walking without thinking. Will I go this way or will I go that way. It’s like some unknown force directing me, making me turn, raising my hand and making me press the shutter. I’m not going to lie though, a majority of the time when I start walking I always end up inside the doors of Defontaines with a slice of pizza in my hand HA! I feel like nothing completes a good photo walk without a slice of that good stuff.
There is something I find so interesting about regular folks just going about their business.
Our existence is so minuscule, so random so irrelevant to the grand expanse of the universe that its nice to capture that split second of something happening right before my eyes. Capturing the expression of an individual making there way through time and light that I just happened to be there to capture that light and time in digital format which is going to last FOREVER !
Just look at the work of Arthur Feilds. This man was a part of O’Connel Bridge. Capturing the ever changing times of Dublin. Trapping the expressions of passers by forever onto film. You look back at those images he created and you will find a completely different Dublin. A different style and a different way of life. If anything, my images will serve as a Pensieve in which the future of humanity will use to review the memories of Dublin past. At least I hope they will.
