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Stephanie McBride is a writer, critic and curator lecturing on film, media and visual culture.

Articles by Stephanie McBride

What’s your angle?
Photography

What’s your angle?


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A study in contrasts
Photography

A study in contrasts


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Seeing Things
Photography

Seeing Things


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Mike Bunn: assignment masterclass
Photography

Mike Bunn: assignment masterclass


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Dubliners in camera
Photography

Dubliners in camera


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Steal away
Photography

Steal away


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Tales of the city
Photography

Tales of the city


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Portrait of a century
Photography

Portrait of a century


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Man on the bridge
Photography

Man on the bridge


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The stones of Inishmore
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The stones of Inishmore

While the patterns set by drystone walls on Inishmore present a harmonious picture of land and occupant, Daragh Muldowney’s overarching concern is for the planet, writes Stephanie McBride


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Doyle’s Odyssey
Photography

Doyle’s Odyssey

Eamonn Doyle’s portraits of Dubliners are unposed, untroubled by vanity and full of momentum, writes Stephanie McBride


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Times past
Photography

Times past


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Enigma
Photography

Enigma


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Only Connect
Photography

Only Connect


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At Seventeen
Photography

At Seventeen


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Book Review: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Photography
Books

Book Review: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Photography


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Book Review: Yu The Lost Country
Books

Book Review: Yu The Lost Country


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Book Review: THE 1960S: IRELAND IN PICTURES
Books

Book Review: THE 1960S: IRELAND IN PICTURES


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Portraits in Focus
Prizes and Awards

Portraits in Focus


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The Everyday Gaze
Arts Lives and Exhibitions

The Everyday Gaze


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This, and other things
Arts Lives and Exhibitions

This, and other things


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Showcase
Photography

Showcase


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Landscape as witness
Arts Lives and Exhibitions

Landscape as witness

Stephanie McBride draws parallels between recent photography and new works on video by Anthony Haughey to be shown at Limerick City Gallery of Art


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Portraits of the artists as a neophyte
Photography

Portraits of the artists as a neophyte


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Silent moments
Photography

Silent moments

Stephanie McBride looks at the work of Dublin-born photographer Alen MacWeeney


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Puck and wren
Artists Photography

Puck and wren

Stephanie McBride finds that Andrew Nuding’s photobook Hunt the Wren mixes tradition and modernity, revitalising ways of belonging in place and history


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but here alone
Photography

but here alone

Stephanie McBride looks at Sharon Murphy’s latest photographic series, which is informed by magic realism


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Between Two Worlds
Photography

Between Two Worlds


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From shadow to light
Photography

From shadow to light


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In the Frame
Photography

In the Frame


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Following Ulysses
Photography

Following Ulysses

Stephanie McBride explores Deirdre Brennan’s photographic response to James Joyce’s Ulysses

 


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Times past
Photography

Times past

Mary Furlong tells Stephanie McBride how her photographic project with accompanying text delves into the memories of her childhood


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No filter
Artists

No filter

Stephanie McBride discovers that, like Banksy and French music duo Daft Punk, threadstories is using her own masked identity and anonymity as a riff on celebrity status, or an inversion of it


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Bare beauty
Photography

Bare beauty

Stephanie McBride regards Norman McCloskey’s unpeopled images that expose the West of Ireland landscape in all its temperaments


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Altered Ground
Photography

Altered Ground

Dianne Whyte’s images elevate the mundane and the overlooked with a sublime grace, writes Stephanie McBride


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Strangely familiar
Photography

Strangely familiar

For her ‘Life Imitating Art‚’ series, Jeanette Lowe tells Stephanie McBride that she looked at scenes in Dublin as Edward Hopper might and created images using him as her influence


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Peat’s last stand
Photography

Peat’s last stand

James Fraher’s black-and-white images of Derrinlough Briquette Factory document the manufacturing process, from gathering the turf to the distribution of the polished bales, writes Stephanie McBride


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Shadow lands
Photography

Shadow lands

In a world where the analogue is routinely discarded, Aoife Shanahan’s explorations invite us to look more closely and more intensely at the image, writes Stephanie McBride


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Stage play
Photography

Stage play

Ros Kavanagh tells Stephanie McBride how the influence of architecture permeates his photographic work

 


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Enigma
Photography

Enigma

Stephanie McBride meets Dominic Turner whose art photography is created with a finesse reminiscent of a bygone age


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Bright wings
Photography

Bright wings

Experimentation is very much a part of Linda Plunkett’s process and her new series seems something of a departure for her, but Stephanie McBride finds her approach is firmly rooted in her engagement with the natural landscape


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Harvest Thanksgiving
Photography

Harvest Thanksgiving

Debbie Godsell tells Stephanie McBride that she used natural light in her photographs of harvest displays in churches in Co Cork to portray as honest an image as possible


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Market forces
Photography

Market forces

Betty Conlon’s photographs of Dublin’s historic market reveal living histories, writes Stephanie McBride


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Beyond the surface
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Beyond the surface


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Between the layers
Artists Exhibitions

Between the layers

Jean Curran tells Stephanie McBride that in her editing of cinematic work she is stopping the movie, asking the audience to go back to the fundamentals


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Time’s eye
Artists Photography

Time’s eye

Stephanie McBride regards the work of an accomplished 19th-century photographer who sensitively recorded portraits of people and place


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Poetic evidence
Photography

Poetic evidence

Akihiko Okamura’s photographs show people persisting with some semblance of routine during wartime, when the unreal and absurd invade the everyday, writes Stephanie McBride


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Alchemy of shadows
Photography

Alchemy of shadows

Using satellite imaging, photographer David Thomas Smith echoes the Arecibo radio message transmitted into deep space forty-five years ago, writes Stephanie McBride

 


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Pulse
Photography

Pulse

The figures in Clare Langan’s The Heart of a Tree become a metaphor for the precarity of existence in an age of environmental crisis and collapse, writes Stephanie McBride


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