Ronan Callahan
Ronan is a 23-year-old photographer who mainly focuses on studio and portrait photography, while also having experience working with still-life creation and sports photography. Picking up his first camera in 2015, he began to shoot sports and landscapes to teach himself how the settings of a camera worked. He streamlined his focus towards portraiture after completing a photography PLC in 2019, where he spent most of his time shooting portraiture in the studio. He continues to keep his mind open with his photography and pushes himself to try new things with the projects he shoots in college. With some of his projects this year stepping away from portraiture and focusing on documentary style photography and landscape photography.
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From Private to Public
From Private to Public is a documentary photo project about public parks/spaces around Dublin, exploring the spaces themselves along with the history behind them. Figuring out the initial uses and ownership of the spaces along with when the change of ownership happened, either being gifted to County Council’s or bought by the council’s to be used as public parks for people to enjoy. Relying on the relationship between image and text to provide context to the images with small pieces of text under the images with a brief history of the space and ownership.
Flying Piece of Plastic
This project is about Ultimate Frisbee in TUD, the images made in the project timeline are of the ultimate frisbee team here in the university taken during trainings on Monday and Thursday evenings throughout term time. They were all shot on the pitches that are available at the university. I decided to go down this route with the project as ultimate frisbee is something that has been a large part of my life for the last ten years and something I find a bit difficult to explain to people who have never heard of the sport before. I am hoping with the images made in this project they give a little bit of insight into how the sport works and the physical nature of the ultimate frisbee world.