Paul Dickinson
SHOP?
This work investigates the relationship between a post-conflict society and its inability to deal with the political past. An inability to accept the wrongs done, an attempt to camouflage and conceal. It was this ethos that produced the smoke screen of SHOP?. These follies were produced to hide reality for those who cared to look, and to protect the soft underbelly of government laid bare by hereditary incompetence. Was this the truth that was being hidden? Or just a continuance, to address important issues within the broken society in which these facades endure. The illusion that is SHOP? is a representation of our post-conflict society, polished to look as if normality prevails, whilst behind, distrust and sectarianism gestate.
Gerry Blake • Paul Coffey • Paul Dickinson • Will Eames • Aisling McCoy •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
University of Hertfordshire
MA Photography
Kingston University
MA Photography
Manchester School of Art
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
Sheffield Hallam University
MArt Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism