I’m a multidisciplinary artist and documentary photographer building one long archive out of images, clay and scent. I grew up on mix tapes and National Geographic, obsessed with how one track bled into the next and how a single frame could hold a whole life. For twenty years I worked in newspapers and on assignment, chasing slow human stories — from children working in charcoal fields in the Philippines to Sandy Hook, when TIME hired me to cover the mass shooting that killed 27 children.
That work never really stopped; it runs underneath everything I make now.
I live in southwest Ireland with my family and an unreasonable number of cats, and I co-run a small studio shop in Killarney with Lyndsay of the lawless company, where my ceramic work sits alongside scent objects, Jesmonite pieces, prints and contemporary jewellery. The work is what it has always been — photography, Jesmonite objects, scent — but lately the ceramics have been pulling hardest. I handbuild ceramic faces, vessels and wrecked bowls, cast stone objects and scent pieces that feel like they’ve been dug up from the same weather as my photographs, and I use the kiln and the studio the way I used to use sequences — quiet, stubborn structures that let you stay inside a feeling for longer than the news cycle ever did. Selected documentary prints from this archive are available here, and a portion of each print sale goes back into organisations working with some of the children and communities I photographed, so the pictures keep doing a little work in the world instead of just sitting on a wall.
I’m a multidisciplinary artist and documentary photographer building one long archive out of images, clay and scent. I grew up on mix tapes and National Geographic, obsessed with how one track bled into the next and how a single frame could hold a whole life. For twenty years I worked in newspapers and on assignment, chasing slow human stories — from children working in charcoal fields in the Philippines to Sandy Hook, when TIME hired me to cover the mass shooting that killed 27 children.
That work never really stopped; it runs underneath everything I make now.
I live in southwest Ireland with my family and an unreasonable number of cats, and I co-run a small studio shop in Killarney with Lyndsay of the lawless company, where my ceramic work sits alongside scent objects, Jesmonite pieces, prints and contemporary jewellery. The work is what it has always been — photography, Jesmonite objects, scent — but lately the ceramics have been pulling hardest. I handbuild ceramic faces, vessels and wrecked bowls, cast stone objects and scent pieces that feel like they’ve been dug up from the same weather as my photographs, and I use the kiln and the studio the way I used to use sequences — quiet, stubborn structures that let you stay inside a feeling for longer than the news cycle ever did. Selected documentary prints from this archive are available here, and a portion of each print sale goes back into organisations working with some of the children and communities I photographed, so the pictures keep doing a little work in the world instead of just sitting on a wall.
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