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Comment on Sample of current work for International Fund for Ireland by julianna

julianna — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:51:51 +0000

Dear Adam,
I recently finished my MA at LCC in Documentary Photography and through-out the year I have always enjoyed your blog and writing. I just noticed your recent project on Northern Ireland and wanted to leave you a suggestion. I grew up in the states but my mother is from Belfast and we always used to go back when I was a kid. But the Belfast that I remember doesn’t exist anymore. The barracks, the British soldiers patrolling, the check point to enter the city center. It is definitely a better place now but my mom and I can’t help but feel that Belfast has lost its magic. Its identity. So many of the cute shops that I used to visit with my grandma have disappeared. I used to visit cousins that lived in Turf Lodge and though I didn’t know it at the time it was one of the roughest neighborhoods in the city. But to me it was alive and full of kids running in and out of each other’s homes. The house still had a coal burning fireplace and it was the only source of heat, there were rumors that at one point it was used as a safe house for the IRA and this house was something forbidden. My mom said that Turf Lodge used to be a safe place where everyone knew everyone but now I think it has changed dramatically. My cousins who lived their all ended up having children before they were 17. It might be interesting to look at this place. To look at the decline of its magic.

Good Luck,

Julianna

Comment on Noam Chomsky for Vice, Belfast, 10/2009 by Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:48:09 +0000

Very nice mate

Comment on Portrait of writer Neil Boorman by Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:47:04 +0000

The eyes, the eyes!

Comment on no words at all, at ever a place by Catia

Catia — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:59:26 +0000

They fight because they love you and you love them back. Its a life-long “contract”, which both parts agree to without consent or signatures. I’m pretty sure they are very proud of you and that amid the mist of those blurry days, the fact that you have a dream, a passion, an uncontrollable desire to do something that you like doing just because you do, makes them see those days as an unavoidable path towards better moments. Consider yourself lucky! Most people dont even have that. And not having it must hurt much more than being confronted with the uncertainties of fighting for the only thing that makes sense in your life. I know that that’s what makes me wanna be your friend.

Comment on Contrast brief by seefortyone

seefortyone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:15:31 +0000

Still can’t believe you asked me to hug the tree.

Comment on wake up by seefortyone

seefortyone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:08:09 +0000

PS: I’m now 31…

Comment on Dissertation dinner by seefortyone

seefortyone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:03:39 +0000

Could do with some of that right now…

Comment on noorderlicht skies by Hong Kong Tony

Hong Kong Tony — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:56:47 +0000

you and your birds patterson

Comment on hong kong tony by Hong Kong Tony

Hong Kong Tony — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:53:38 +0000

…as seen reporting from the Irish coast…

Comment on some new work on bbc by Catia

Catia — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:16 +0000

Like this one a lot! Great! x