Island Talk 3
19th April 2023
Talk 1 - Linda Brownlee
Linda Brownlee’s work, as both photographer and director, moves between the worlds of portraiture, fashion, and documentary. Linda’s work is primarily concerned with the intimate nature of human behaviour and the relationships between people and the environments they inhabit. Working collaboratively, Linda’s process draws on the impulse to focus on energy and mood, attentive to eloquent details in gesture and expression.
Linda shared work from a series she shot on Garnish Island.
As the plants around the island began to fall out of bloom in the early autumn, she experimented with the use of multiple exposures to capture the intense beauty and emotional impact felt roaming these rare gardens.
Talk 2 - Kate Nolan
Kate Nolan is an Irish visual artist working with photography, moving image and text.
She presented The Cut Tells its Own Tale, a work in progress:
In 1981, when I was just two, my family moved from Ireland to Baghdad for the following five years. My father was the photographer of our family and it’s his curated albums that I have been re-visiting, trying to understand and recollect our time there. A civil engineer and a tourist, the images switch easily between architectural and family holiday pictures. For me there are no real memories, just a sense of experience from what the family album evokes. This project is an ongoing discussion with my parents around their position as young Westerners working in the Middle East during the Iraq/Iran war, our differing and changeable memories and questioning the role of the family album within memory itself.
