Empire

This piece was created at the supposed 'end' of the Iraq war, at which point over a million Iraqis had died and around a thousand US troops. Many years later the violence continues and the US troops remain. Worse still, the conflict has spread further in the quest for hegemony and secure oil supplies. This is not just about the USA, it's about all empires - despite rivers of blood spilt to prevent it, the collapse will come eventually, coming down on top of the bleached bones of countless millio...

Survival

Despite our endless building and destruction of the natural world, nature is still relentless. When humans are one day gone the Earth will most likely spin on and recover from whatever we can throw at it.

How Much Did You Get?

A blatant critque of the modern world of work. I lived it for many years until I just could no longer stand the monotony and misery. It's better to be poor than a slave to the machine.

Bright Future

A somewhat over-the-top collage of what we could end up with if we don't take a u-turn away from global capitalism and endless consumerism. What use is an iPod if your drinking water is poisoned?

Bright Future II

I really hope this dystopian vision does not come to pass. This version was inspired by some graffiti I saw on a window.

Let Them Drink Soda

A visual diatribe against consumerism (with some sarcastic commentary too), it's generally not until it's too late that we realise how shallow and useless this mode of existence really is. China and India are rapidly destroying their landscape and undermining their own cultures in their race to catch up with the 'West' - seemingly oblivious to the long-term negative effects on their countries and the planet as a whole.

Bushmonkey

Perhaps the most unpopular world leader in modern times, until Trump, although his crimes seem trivial in comparison to those of Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot. Attempts to impeach him failed due to the corruption inherent in the political system; but he will still be remembered as probably the most corrupt and asinine of American presidents.

Dispossesed

When I lived in East London in the late 80s and early 90s I saw some really shocking poverty, things don't seem to have changed. In fact, if anything it has become worse in recent times.

Tyre Dump

A really horrible site on waste ground in inner city Dublin, even amongst the wealth and up-market lifestyles you can still find terrible deprivation and ugly sights, often just a few streets away.

Whitechapel Ruin

East London once again, a huge abandoned factory and its grounds left to rot, what a waste.

Cyberjunk

As time passes more technology becomes redundant and change accelerates ever faster. Is this change for any real purpose or just for its own sake? Where will it all end?

A Wasteland

This was once a beautiful woodland, the area was supposed to be replanted but it never was. This shot was taken just after the logging was completed. The physical version has a frame made of driftwood and rusty barbed wire and there is also some additional etching around the edges.

High Cross

I took this shot in Ferns, Co. Wexford, Ireland, by lying on the ground. It was an overcast day so I replaced the sky with another shot and then it gave me the idea to make it surreal altogether.

Hay Bails

Shot in Courtown, Co. Wexford. Again I wasn't happy with the overcast sky (as is often the case in Ireland) so I enhanced another sky shot and stitched them together, I've also altered the colour and coarseness of the grass.

Owl

Shot at Avondale in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, the statue is actually wooden, shot in daylight but in this fake night-time treatment it looks more like stone.

Giants' Causway

Shot in county Antrim,Northern Ireland. The sky is original but heavily manipulated, as are the rocks.

Cliffs

The Cliffs of Moher in mirror image, with a false sun and sky, this is one of my early experiments and turned out better than I expected.

Pink Cactus

Shot in Mexico, the sky is replaced and posterised to create the distortion.

Digital Dolmen

Based on an earlier work of a dolmen close to Newgrange in Co. Meath, that I used on an album cover. I cut it up and re-assembled it with various treatments on the segments.

Snails

Shot at Courtown beach in Co. Wexford. Most of the work here was recolouring the shot and messing with the grain of the sand.

Hyde Park

Shot in London, I inserted the lens flare as an inverted sun, the whole shot is inverted and solarised and then re-coloured.

Callanish Stones

Stone circle on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

Newgrange Doorway

The front of Newgrange/Síd in Broga, in Co. Meath, Ireland. A doorway in more ways than one.

Prison Planet

The concentration camp began with Cuba - reconcentración. It is still with us now and oppression still blights this beautiful planet.