by Éadaoin | Feb 10, 2015 | Spark
Not Safe For Work, don’t say I didn’t warn you. When you put Nan Goldin’s name into the google machine, the first portrait of the photographer herself, the first photo at all, is this one, entitled ‘Nan One Month After Being Battered,...
by Éadaoin | Jan 27, 2015 | Stories
My heart skips a beat, I haven’t breathed in twenty seconds. I’m copying photo files. The agony, the anxiety, the fear, the huge failure in my mind’s eye that are the very contents of this memory card. Fear of failure, that belly punching that I get...
by Éadaoin | Jan 20, 2015 | Stories
As we chomp our breakfast from the buffet in the Bellaggio, (great coffee, sooo much fruit, awful baked beans -who the eff puts sugar in their baked beans??) Moe has the great idea of checking just how long it will take us to drive Vegas to Yosemite, through Death...
by Éadaoin | Jan 13, 2015 | Spark
Nadav Kander’s work is moving in its simplicity and striking in its composition. Diver, Salt Lake, Utah 1997 Priozersk IV, Kazakhstan (From Dust) From the project “Yangtze, The Long River” Strong compositional elements and a beautiful use of negative...
by Éadaoin | Jan 2, 2015 | Spark
2014 was a bit like like a moody teenager for me; lovable and brilliant one minute, lost and overly emotional the next. It’s been an uppy downy year, and from my perspective at least, it seems like it’s been a tricky one for a lot of folks close to me. But...
by Éadaoin | Nov 25, 2014 | Spark
As divisive as it it famous, Diane (Dee-ann) Arbus’ work is startling, threatening, uncomfortable, captivating. The so-called “chronicler of freaks”, Arbus’ work was unflinching and often unmerciful, as though she waited until the very moment...
by Éadaoin | Aug 27, 2014 | Stories
Practice. Failure. Practice. Disappointment. Practice. Crap. Practice. Amazing. Practice. Average. Practice. Better. Practice. Crap. Practice. Disappointment. Practice. Practice. Practice… At least that’s how it goes in my mind. These were a huge...
by Éadaoin | Aug 25, 2014 | Spark
Her name has been on every photography site for the last year, Vivian Maier. The story grew from early 2010 to become one of the biggest stories in the photographic art world – ever? This woman was one of the most prolific and hugely talented street...
by Éadaoin | Aug 13, 2014 | Stories
Somewhere over Eastern Europe, March 2014 My passport expired yesterday. I keep thinking about that girl with the over-plucked eyebrows and too-solemn expression in the photo, how little she knew about herself and the world. How resolute she was to see it but how...
by Éadaoin | Jul 28, 2014 | Spark
You don’t need to know photos to know this one, you’ve seen it before, those eyes are hard to forget. She is “Afghan Girl”, the portrait that made Magnum Photographer Steve McCurry famous in 1985. The portrait that almost didn’t even make...
