The Photo Course is a project which explores the environment of a Photographic
Course where I work in Dublin. I look
for the energetic ‘imprint’ from teaching and learning photography against the
dead wood of the empty institutional environment. The
work is also about subtle and ephemeral micro-events which happen in the
duration of a day, a week, a year, which become part of the history of the
building. As we move forward we create and we construct. We develop and perform
ideas and discourse physically in and on the environment. We shape that
environment through our mental and physical interactions, day upon day, year
upon year. We also destruct. Destruction is part of the creative process. The
work also, in a profound way, of a certain reality of transient, ephemeral
relationships which are built year upon year between teachers and students and,
in a less profound way, of the relationships between photographic discourse,
practice and the its environment.
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