OUTSIDE IN
Oisín Spelman
A-level Photography
January 2024
A-level Photography
January 2024
The following collection is images and stories are from the summer of 2023 when I went ack to town where my dad is from, Kinnitty County Offaly in The Republic of Ireland. While there I tried to capture the spirit of the land and what life is like in such a small rural community.
- The First video is IRIS STORY where she told us about the fact that everyone in the village had nothing but they had nothing together.
- After this we have two POSTERS they are a combination of my own photographs overlayed with my fathers and grandmothers handwriting in his Irish books from when he spent his summers as a boy on Inisheer and when my grandmother learnt 'old Irish' in school.
- Third there are four images EMULSION PRINTS using medium format negatives I had. With a project like this I want it to be tactile and and make the viewer feel the grit, dirt and decay of the images.
- Fourth there are three images that I took in the studio using a fujifilm H2S where I wanted to try and photography OBJECTS that I had found in my grandmothers shed and ones I own that capture Irish culture in a more 'human' and physical way.
- Finally is the flip through of the final book that I made, 'OUTSIDE IN' the book uses my own photographs as well as stories that I have collected from those who live in and around the village.