Michael McIlvaney: beautiful serendipity in street photography

Subordinate
The daily collisions between one's inner private self and the everyday reality of urban city living, form part of a project intended to explore the metaphors associated with this tension: vulnerability; alienation; subordination; fear; threat; isolation; infringement; intrusion, as well as the tripartite relationship between victim, perpetrator and image maker. The series calls into question the photographer's participation: whether as documentarian, witness, narrator, facilitator, voyeur, conspirator or a combination of these roles. Ultimately this project is about this threefold dynamic.

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Collision

The city encounters record temperatures. The glass and steel of the latest structures reflect the light and magnify the heat causing distress and anguish to the city's inhabitants. When the natural and created worlds collide things get uncomfortable. A passerby approaches: "Do you know the news today?" "No" "It's the same as yesterday! The world is careering toward a climate apocalypse. Didn't you know? And you just stand there. Taking photographs. Do something man. Something needs to be done!"

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