My Photography is generally a reflection of the environment I live
in, I’m very aware of the structural change that’s brought about by globalisation and the impact it has
on the wider community. Of late I’ve been studying industrial underground mining and its effect on the workers, the infrastructure, the natural landscape and economy. Growing up in Tipperary which has a long history in Mining, I researched the economic growth and the impact of the closures of these mines both nancially and physically on the landscape.

When I take my camera underground I’m taking images of an unavailable landscape. As I map the intangible layers of this scared landscape I’m unearthing and revealing the beauty which lies beneath the holocaust of destruction. When I press the shutter release button on my camera it’s like pressing the button on a detonator because I can feel the mini explosions that go off in the bulbs to light this
for ever dark abandoned mine. The Aperture, the Shutter opening to capture the explosion to reveal a beauty that otherwise remains a secret.