Institution
TU Dublin
Medium
Photography
Graduation Year
Class of 2026
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My practice is grounded in long-term engagements with people and environments to which I have strong personal ties. I am drawn to themes of home, memory, class and the quiet effects of social and economic change that too often unfold slowly and out of sight. Using analogue photographic processes, I work intuitively, allowing space for natural interactions and unplanned moments. Whether taking a portrait, photographing a space or documenting a fleeting moment, I approach each situation with care and respect. I'm not interested in spectacle, but rather in what lingers in the traces of what's been lost, held onto or quietly endured. My graduate project, How we live, is an exploration of the instability of the renting culture in Dublin, Ireland through the lens of young adults navigating a housing crisis. Since 2015, average house prices In Ireland have risen by 91% and private rents by 78%. The result of years of housing undersupply and political inaction, the crisis has now been projected to persist until at least 2040. For my generation, precarity has become a defining condition of everyday life, shaping how we form relationships, imagine our futures and move through the world. Rooted in my own experience, and the lives of those closest to me, How we live explores how economic forces have shaped our sense of home, agency and adulthood. As leaving parties have replaced housewarmings, and our city’s shared spaces, whether public or private, feel increasingly impersonal, we have relied upon a culture of reactionary escapism. The work reflects these feelings of transience and frustration, as well as the resilience of a generation that has been denied stability. Using a combination of candid 35mm black and white photographs of social moments and atmospheric medium format colour photographs of shared domestic spaces and those who currently call these spaces home. How we live documents our way of life and the ever-present sense of temporality that we all carry. This is an intimate record of how the housing crisis has shaped not just where we live, but how we live, how we love, how we cope and come undone.
