Snap Judgements, Encounters with the Social Gaze
Group exhibition with Haley Morris-Cafiero, Daragh Soden & Eva O’Leary
Daragh Soden
Daragh Soden is an artist and photographer from Dublin, Ireland working in London.
“Dublin is the city I grew up in, I wanted to make work about me but also about the youth in Dublin today. I approached young people in the streets of Dublin and asked them if I could take their photograph, and allowed them to stand as they wished. The idea was to champion the youth of Dublin today, to celebrate them and also revisit my own youth. “”
Visit Daragh’s website here
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, part spectator, Haley Morris-Cafiero explores the act of reflection in her photography. Morris-Cafiero’s photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, and have been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and online including Le Monde, New York Magazine and Salon.
Visit Haley’s website here
“For my series, Wait Watchers, I set up a camera in a public area and photograph the scene as I perform mundane tasks while strangers pass by me. I then examine the images to see if any of the passersby had a critical or questioning element in their face or body language. I consider my photographs a social media experiment and I reverse the gaze back on to stranger and place the viewer in the position of being a witness to a moment in time. The project is a performative form of street photography. I place the camera on a tripod and take hundreds on photographs. The resulting images capture the gazer in a microsecond moment where the shutter, the scene, my actions and their body language align and are frozen on the frame. I do not know what the people in my photographs are looking at or reacting to. I present the images to the world to start a conversation about the gaze and how we use it communicate our thoughts of others. ” ”
The Gallery of Photography were delighted to have Haley (pictured) and Daragh in to talk about their work on May 2nd.
Eva O’Leary
Eva O’Leary grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania with little more than a couple of streets, one big intersection and a huge football stadium. The stadium really is huge. It is the third largest in the world, with a 100,000-plus capacity for fans attending home games. Her hometown is called Happy Valley.
Visit Eva’s website here
Exhibition dates
April 20th - May 26th 2019
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