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Sad Jesus and the Great Hunger
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Sad Jesus and the Great Hunger

Sad Jesus, Holy Well, Deserted Village, the Great Hunger, Achill, Mayo, Ireland
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Sad Jesus by the holy well at the Deserted Village on Achill Island in Ireland. The Deserted Village consists of some 80 to 100 ruined stone cottages located along a mile long stretch of road on the southern slopes of the Slievemore mountain. Its atmosphere is unique: a feeling of almost intruding on those who lived there and the overall air of mystery of why did they leave? The answer is that the village was gradually abandoned during the mid-19th century because of the many evictions for non-payment of rent to the local landlord, the Great Hunger and the emigration throughout the successive years. (more…)

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The Huis Marseille Photography Museum
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The Huis Marseille Photography Museum

Huis Marseille, photography, Museum, Amsterdam
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Amsterdam’s Huis Marseille is not of this world. It comprises two labyrinthine, 17th century canal houses, which fascinate through their sense of history, their intricate light and shadow, and oceans of sun-dappled space. I come here regularly but not for the pictures… (more…)

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Erg Chebbi; A Sea of Dunes
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Erg Chebbi; A Sea of Dunes

Erg Chebbi, Morocco, Sahara
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A silent sunrise at Erg Chebbi, a vast sea of dunes located on the edge of the Sahara desert. During the warmest part of the year, Moroccans come to Erg Chebbi to be buried neck-deep in the hot sand for a few minutes at a time. This is considered to be a treatment for rheumatism. (more…)

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Elderly gentleman in the Medina of Fez
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Elderly gentleman in the Medina of Fez

Medina of Fez, animals, cat, World Heritage Site, UNESCO
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An elderly gentleman cat living out his days in the Medina of Fez, which is both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the biggest car-free urban area in the world. Also known as Fes el Bali, the Medina is the oldest walled part of the city, and was founded as the capital of the Moroccan Idrisid dynasty between 789 and 808 AD. The Medina of Fez also boasts the oldest university in the world, the University of Al-Karaouine, and houses a population of 156,000. (more…)

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My Work at the Walker Art Gallery
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My Work at the Walker Art Gallery

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Coming Out, exhibition
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I’m delighted to be included in Coming Out, an exhibition at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, which is otherwise known as the “National Gallery of the North”. The show opens on 28th July and I’ll be represented by a work that was purchased by the Arts Council Collection. Hopefully, I’ll be there for the private view as I’ll be in Orkney at around that time.

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Temple of Baal, Palmyra

Temple of Baal, Palmyra

Temple of Baal, restoration, Palmyra, Syria
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I took this photograph in 2009 not knowing that these unique rosettes would be destroyed when ISIS dynamited Palmyra’s Temple of Baal in August 2015. Fortunately, France’s Musée d’Archéologie is one of the institutes involved in the ancient city’s restoration, and this and other of my photographs of the site are now included in its archive.

PS: If a photograph is the ghost of a moment in time, in this case, it is also effectively the afterlife of these items of cultural heritage. (more…)

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Fossilised Colonial Coral
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Fossilised Colonial Coral

Fossilised colonial coral, Mulranny, County Mayo, Ireland
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Fossilised colonial coral dating from up to 359 millennia ago when Ireland was still a tropical swamp. Later this region turned into an Arctic wasteland, before warming up enough to allow for the early hunter-gatherers. Nowadays, colonial coral fossils can be easily found in limestone areas such as Mulranny in County Mayo, where I found this example peeping through the pebbles.  (more…)

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