My work has involved photographing the landscape and the built environment. Social and historical narratives as well as conceptual ideas dealing with form have informed the choice of subjects. The  ‘typological’ search in photography for anonymous sculpture and the works of the everyday auteur are of great relevance to the work. Though my closest antecedents are Hilla and Bernt Becher and many of the artists that studied with them, an interest in subjects that are small scale, quaint, local and disused is moving the work closer in influence to Gabriel Orozco and away from Andreas Gursky.

Experimentation with found photographs and other objects has begun to develop in my work. These new materials and methods have also brought about the possibilities of positioning images alongside original artefacts in the gallery. During this MA, I will be particularly concerned with acquiring the skills required to finish, complete and otherwise bring to closure a number of projects that I have in progress. Once this habit has been established and this aim at least partly achieved, I’d like to expand on my work examining the Irish environment through the conceptual documentary method and outlook outlined above.

At the moment I am working on completing and visually 'up-grading' a series of photographs of the sites of disused handball alleys around Ireland. For the next field of inquiry I have started taking visual notes on hand-made concrete structures in the rural environment. I will be taking as a further research subject the photographer August Sanders’ seventh and final categorization of photographs, entitled The Last Few People  ("Die Letzten Menschen"). This group consisted of people outside of society's normal 'comfort zone' and included portraits, amongst others, of the blind. I would like to be able to identify the qualities of his work that distinguish it from later work, particularly the photographs of similar subjects by Diane Arbus.