Photography and Moving Image

Megan Byrne

Traces Left Behind

Megan Byrne’s practice is centred around the almost forgotten environments and places that surrounds us in our everyday lives. Whilst documenting the subtleness of this through the process of analogue photography and filmmaking.

Working mainly with themes of the unnoticed landscapes and memory leads to her most recent work titled ‘Traces Left Behind’. This is a series of film photographs taken in the artist’s grandparents’ home in the midlands of Ireland. The aim was to capture the traces left behind by a person from one generation to the next. As the home is still lived in by the family passed down, and the stillness of the home from the 1950’s to today is still preserved as if stuck in time. As the artist only has very few memories of her grandparents before they passed, this project was to capture the echoes of the lives they once lived.

As well as the lives that are still present today some remain only of the mindset of the generations long gone. Captured through this work some of the unspoken and quietness of the past of rural Ireland, in comparison to today’s constant ever-changing world before its lost.

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