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Liam McCormick and sacral architecture
August 23, 2020
I just spent a week in Donegal, the most incredible part of Ireland. Every year I try to spend some time travelling around the country and I am always amazed at how beautiful it is. The landscape here is unreal.
But Ireland is not just a landscape. It’s also beautiful…
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Large format 8x10
July 18, 2020
Writing of this post will be stretched in time - a form of a short diary.
I am starting on Saturday morning on the 11th of July, and I can’t wait until the next week to tell you what I feel today… And I am amazed. My visual perception of…
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Irish Management Institute
July 10, 2020
The Irish Management Institute is an Irish business school located in Sandyford, the suburbs of southern Dublin. It contains offices, a library, a restaurant and teaching facilities
A unique campus designed by Arthur Gibney in 1974. The same year, Arthur Gibney received the RIAI Triennial Gold Medal for the IMI…
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Wesley House
July 3, 2020
For the first time this year, I didn't write my Saturday blog for two weeks in a row. Good to be back after this unexpected break.
The restrictions have been loosened a bit so it would seem that it will be easier to reach certain places. Not necessarily. Several areas…
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Power plants
June 12, 2020
There are places that you can’t always enter, let alone photograph. Places that are often fascinating and full of magic. This fascination can be based on various premises. In my case, it is the form of the subject, its purpose and historical aspect.
Industrial facilities right after modernist architecture are…
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Hendrons
June 5, 2020
Walking down Dominick Street Upper, at some point, a fascinating and unique structure emerges. A four-story, white rendered block with horizontal glazing, flat roof and tall lift tower. It’s Hendrons former Showroom. Then, along the Palmerston Place stretches the further part, workshops
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© Artur Sikora
Hendrons Brothers, founded in 1911,…
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Texaco House
May 29, 2020
The weather is fantastic these days, so I’m trying to take advantage of it. Not only by cycling to my new favourite swimming spot but also by photographing Dublin and its architecture more often than usual
In such illumination and through a red filter, everything looks simply wonderful. With intense…
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Inchicore Vocational School - stairs
May 22, 2020
I have been photographing Dublin and its architecture for over a decade, but I have to admit that there are still many places that I need to discover and explore. It is a wonderful process that takes place in stages. Some time must pass between them. Often quite long
Reading…
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My cameras - part IV - instant photography
May 15, 2020
Instant cameras - did you think I forgot about them? No, not at all
I just wanted to wait a bit with this post and avoid the situation when my blog turns into a purely technical, full of camera descriptions.
In addition, real experience with this technology is relatively new…
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Dublin suburb libraries
May 9, 2020
Photographing Ringsend Public Library, helped me to realise how very interesting these small beautiful buildings are. Following the same path, I visited the remaining three I mentioned in the post last week.
Updated restrictionists allowed me to move around Dublin a bit further at last, and I decided to use…
