'Everything
Equally'
Public
spaces, often created by town planners, maintained
by councils and ideologically 'equal for all', in reality
have restrictions of use imposed upon them, which may
leave us with a sense of oppression and claustrophobia. In
response to the theme, 'Everything Equally', I have recorded
subtle evidence of the factors that influence the identity
of a space over time, in the coastal town of Donaghadee,
County Down in Northern Ireland. By witnessing the traces
that people and nature have left behind, perhaps in
an attempt to reclaim the space, these photographs
represent a place with an ambiguous purpose, yet paradoxically,
it is this that helps to define its identity. |