No Country for Young Men, Archival pigment prints, 148 x 110cm, 2020
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Exhibited at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK, 2021
No Country for Young Men, Archival pigment prints, 148 x 110cm, 2020
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Exhibited at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK, 2021
No Country for Young Men, Archival pigment prints, 148 x 110cm, 2020
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Exhibited at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK, 2021
No Country for Young Men, Archival pigment prints, 148 x 110cm, 2020
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Exhibited at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK, 2021
No Country for Young Men, Archival pigment prints, 148 x 110cm, 2020
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Editions available as 25.4 x 19.1cm and 50.8 x 38.3cm
Appropriated from a Belfast School Year book circa 1965-66, these portraits depict youths on the cusp of adulthood during a time of great upheaval in the province.
The Civil Rights movement was very active in the 1960s. Protests had taken place about the unfair of voting practices, the allocation of public housing and discriminatory employment practices. There was bigoted resistance to this peaceful campaign for equality. That resistance fanned the embers of old sectarian narratives and twisted them into a violent response. Halfway through 1966 there were sectarian murders.
"These found portraits, enlarged and indistinct, possess an added resonance. They are appropriated from a Belfast school yearbook from 1965, a year of violent tremors in Northern Ireland that, with hindsight, seem darkly prescient. History hangs over these young boys like a falling shadow. As they stare, unknowing, into the camera lens, trouble awaits them as surely as night follows day." Sean O'Hagan, 2020.
This work has also been made in to a 36 page broadsheet newspaper with 13 images and 4 essays authored by Dr Edwin Coomasaru, Orla Fitzpatrick, Sean O'Hagan, and Fearghus Roulston. The authors reflect upon the work from very different perspectives - a personal account of Northern Irish school days in the 1960s; the use of child imagery during the Troubles; childhood, time, and gender. Purchase here
The Civil Rights movement was very active in the 1960s. Protests had taken place about the unfair of voting practices, the allocation of public housing and discriminatory employment practices. There was bigoted resistance to this peaceful campaign for equality. That resistance fanned the embers of old sectarian narratives and twisted them into a violent response. Halfway through 1966 there were sectarian murders.
"These found portraits, enlarged and indistinct, possess an added resonance. They are appropriated from a Belfast school yearbook from 1965, a year of violent tremors in Northern Ireland that, with hindsight, seem darkly prescient. History hangs over these young boys like a falling shadow. As they stare, unknowing, into the camera lens, trouble awaits them as surely as night follows day." Sean O'Hagan, 2020.
This work has also been made in to a 36 page broadsheet newspaper with 13 images and 4 essays authored by Dr Edwin Coomasaru, Orla Fitzpatrick, Sean O'Hagan, and Fearghus Roulston. The authors reflect upon the work from very different perspectives - a personal account of Northern Irish school days in the 1960s; the use of child imagery during the Troubles; childhood, time, and gender. Purchase here
Broadsheet newspaper, 350x500mm / 55gsm / Loose binding / Edition of 200
Published by Studio Martin Seeds, 2020
Published by Studio Martin Seeds, 2020