George McManus
Casting Shadows
The body of work Casting Shadows, represents the photographer's return to the site of his father's death. The landscape of this site is embued with the photographer's relationship with his fathers passing, one of sorrow, respect and trauma. The images in effect are understood firstly in terms of a eulogy to the father, and secondly in the distance between personal histories and the surface realities of the photographic image. As such the camera becomes central in any representations made after the fact. In this instance the aura of the image is obscured by the breath of the photographer so as to interrupt the indexicality of the photographic surface.The personal nature of the trauma is removed the actuality of the landscape: the event is alluded to but hidden from the viewer. The intention of the photographer is to construct a space within which a presence is suggested, where memory is fragmented, but remains just outside the sphere of understanding and acceptance. It is the photographer's position that within photographic representation, understanding is merely an assumption of understanding. For real understanding can only be brought about through lived experience.
Lee Costello • Amanda Gourley • Daniel Graham • Niamh Grimes • Daniel Holfeld • David McClean • George McManus • Ruth Medjber • Darran Murray • Philip Murray • Louise Phipps •
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
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Camberwell College of Arts
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University of Chester
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Cleveland College of Art and Design
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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IADT Dun Laoghaire
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Edinburgh College of Art
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University College Falmouth
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University College Falmouth
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Glasgow School of Art
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University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham
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London College of Communication
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London College of Communication
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University of Wales, Newport
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University of Wales, Newport
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University of Portsmouth
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Central Saint Martins
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Swansea Metropolitan University
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