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# Curios About: Land’s End by Billy Kenrick
- URL: https://www.dublininquirer.com/curios-about-land-s-end-by-billy-kenrick/
- Published: 2016-01-27T00:18:56.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-27T00:18:00.000Z
- Description: These are stills from “Land’s End”, an ongoing, cumulative work of photos and video shot at the edge of Ireland, which Kenrick hopes you will experience as a kind of “interior travelogue”.
- Author: Square in the Circle
- Tags: Culture Desk, Curios About, photography, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-03-05 15:28

**Land’s End**  
By Billy Kenrick  
35mm/medium-format photographs, digital video/video stills  
Photo and video slideshow, circa 5-10 mins

1\. This work is about . . . “Land’s End” is an ongoing, cumulative work featuring photographs and video footage shot at the nethermost point of land at the edge of Ireland/Western Europe. It marks a break from the mainly narrative-driven photo sequences that I had been working on before this. It started off against the backdrop of the so-called crisis, and the effect of this fed into the project in its own way. Working with video is relatively new for me, so I am exploring the possibilities of combining still and moving images. I am currently working on expanding the slideshow version of the series to integrate new material and broaden its scope.

2\. I made this work because . . . in recent years I have been interested in working in specific locations. This involves revisiting the same area intermittently over the course of a few years. I have a couple of projects that are site-specific in this sense, and feature fairly remote spaces. It’s a question of finding an atmosphere that’s conducive. I find it interesting to work in such spaces as they provide a backdrop to work against, photographically. The locations are personally significant, but are not treated as subject matter as such – more like an arena within which to work, and to generate an atmosphere that is psychologically resonant.

3\. I hope when people see this work they will . . . I would like the work to be experienced as a kind of interior travelogue.

4\. In terms of art history, this work . . . I’m interested in working in a personal, diaristic style. So far, I have worked primarily with analogue black and white photography – for me, it deals more effectively with an aesthetic of tension and contrast, and I find there is more room for accidents, interference and imperfection. In this sense, the work could be tied into a lineage of photographers working in this vein of subjective documentary.

5\. You can see my work . . . at [www.billykenrick.com](http://www.billykenrick.com/?ref=dublininquirer.com)

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