Category: Reviewing Practice
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The moment between before and after.
It has been nice over the past few days to revisit a project from the first year of the MFA in Photography I was lucky to complete a few years ago, during my time at Belfast School of Art. Lentamente el Camino Me Mata or Slowly the Way Kills Me is the product of a deep…
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You will always have your notebooks.
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For some reason I keep seeing ads for the Remarkable tablet. While that appeals to my inner consumer geek, the price is equivalent to about twenty premium leather bound notebooks and a lifetime supply of pens. From the palm pilot on there has be great promises of inner peace and the zen of organization. All…
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Could I Be Buried Here?
You watch your life unfold before you from start to finish, would you change anything? Worn out, after a thirty-year career as a migrant artist in animation, design and academia, I moved to Spain with my wife to recuperate and reflect on the events that had led to this moment. Nested in the mountains of…
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Reconstituting Memory
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Therapeutic Photography explores how art, particularly photography, can aid in mending the mind and addressing deep-seated traumas. Artists like Jo Spence have utilized photography as a therapeutic tool, confronting personal and historical traumas, thereby transforming memory and narrative into healing processes. Research by Judy Weiser and others has further established a framework within art therapies…
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Immersive Photographic Realities
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Photography, since its inception, has served as a pivotal medium for capturing and preserving human experiences, from historical events to artistic expressions that showcase the human condition. The medium not only depicts reality but also manipulates perceptions through the photographer’s control over time, framing, and exposure. In contemporary practices, photography intertwines with digital technology, where…
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The Leprachaun
The thought of artistic inheritance goes way back in our family. My great-grandfather Thomas Fitzpatrick ran and illustrated a publication called “The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly”. For the publication of the book “Thomas Fitzpatrick and ‘The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly’, 1905–1915” the authors asked Dad and I to get involved. For this, Dad wrote the introduction and…
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Off the Highway
No Gate Being a student again is awesome. It’s been ten fast years since completing my design degree @ulsteruni. Now I’m doing my best to make it through a masters. MFA Photography, also at Ulster University is a world apart from previous experiences. As an artist in film I worked creatively on components of another’s vision.…
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Return: In Car
The images below are diaristic experimentations from each of the journeys, within which I pickup the kids from early October through the end of November.
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