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Ruth Connolly

Things Were Better Then

I am interested in the idea of the replacement of memory with an object, the replacement of memory with a photograph and the replacement of an object with a photograph. I am particularly interested in Roland Barthes' idea of a memory…

Ruth Connolly – Safe As Houses

Five years after the fall of Ireland's economy, painful reminders remain in the landscape like old scars. In my photographs, ghost housing estates and unfinished plans serve as broken promises with both the cause and…