Sharon O'Neill
Flats
My work draws from the sphere of social documentary photography and concentrates on people and places that from the outside seem unexceptional and, by the very nature of their everyday-ness, are overlooked. I explore the ordinary, observing the fabric and details of a place or community. Flats centres on a council block constructed in 1956 as part of the massive post-war house-building programme, designed by Sir Leslie Martin, principal architect of the Royal Festival Hall. Drawing upon archive material from a book he wrote in 1939 entitled The Flat Book, the work explores the idealistic vision of the young architect, using the building and current inhabitants to illustrate ideas of his 'modern world' today, in essence the realised future of his 1939 vision.
Fu-An Chen • Rich Cutler • James Finlay • Mu-Tien Ho • Elin Karlsson • Kayung Lai • Sharon O'Neill • Andrew Pengilly • Alastair Rodgers • Yuxi Si • Charles Morgan Smith • Joy Stacey • Tim Stephens •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography