July. Not this year...

So, last July I was running a 24/7 photo challenge that end up as a strange set of documents that included two short film shoots, a break-up, moving house three times, an island trip, and some very important social events. This set of images can be found here.

Having just finished 100 consecutive days of portraits I am ready to retreat back into theory mode, and explore the realms of 'terminal identity' more so that I can tackle it via the lens. Also, I need to find a way of exhibiting the 100 Portraits in 100 Days project, and construct it into a book.

However, photography still continues. It continues in the galleries with Allan Sekula's show at Belfast Exposed. And it continues in my world too. Most recently I have been working on new landscapes in rural Ireland that investigate and document how changes in subsidy legislation are affecting farmers and their land. This is only a fledgeling idea, much like the changes in law, but I shall post images soon.

-PM

July: 24/7

Throughout 2008 I undertook, and finished, the 'one photo per day' challenge. This was a great exercise in discipline (both personal and photographic), and something that ingrained photography practice into my life so thoroughly that thinking about 'an image' became second nature. To see the project visit my flickr set.

In an attempt to recreate the discipline involved in documenting life I set the goal of photographing every day in July. Having fragments from every single day for a month or year means, for better or worse, you forget very little.

The images appear in chronological order.

-PM