Portraits aka Dyads

A camera asks a question. The answer is in the image. A photographic dyad.

Will future historians reveal misinterpreted truths? The hope of some photographers is that their images cannot be recast.

Many of the images included herein depict life, offering comfort and hope. Others are an elegiac response to unseen murders.

I refocussed on the distribution of space within the images. I cropped to a portrait aspect ratio and let the juxtapositions happen. Doublets, complements and counterpoints are everywhere. 

Sometimes you may be looking at faces that are lived in, seeing into eyes looking out. Some of these portraits of others are by others in other media. Some may not be portraits at all.

Thematic Influence:

“Chronophagia” by Robert Polidori (Steidl, 2014)

Thanks:

Profesora Luz Mar González-Arias, Author Kevin Barry, Artist Carmel Benson, Stargirls Bella and Fia, Author Lia Mills, Producer David Collins, Actor Norma Howard in “Katie”, Artist Felicity McCartan, Brother Anthony Keane.

Also appearing:

Harbour Seal, Gus, Giraffe, random beach jogger, Mr Jingles, Cockerel, Grey Squirrel, Mediterranean Gull, Robin.

Sculpture credits:

• “Inter Artes et Naturam” by Ciaran O’Connor (detail)
• “Best Night Ever” by Bob Quinn (detail)
• Bust of Sir Dominic Corrigan (sculptor unknown)
• “Thus Daedalus Flew” by Niall O’Neill
• “Theatre” by Agnes Conway (detail)
• “Wolfe Tone” by Edward Delaney (detail)

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