The only thing we fear is not knowing (chairs in flight)

'To turn an object upside down is to deprive it of it's meaning' - Maurice Merleau Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception(1945)

Sean Hillen @ The Gallery Of Photography

Evidence of Controlled Demolition at The Rose Garden, Tralee, Co. Offaly

I attended the opening of Sean Hillen's new show in The Gallery of Photography. It's an exhibition of new photomontage works. Hillen is a Northern Irish born photographer. His photomontages are a mix of his own photograghs and second hand images. This particular show consists of works that transpose the events of 9/11 and the US led invasion of Iraq into an Irish setting. It is interesting that, having started his career photographing the Troubles in the North, Hillen has now turned to scenes of violence of a global rather than local importance (a move followed similarly by another Northern Irish photogragher Paul Sea Wright).

You'll find his work at his impressive website here