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About nine years ago Photographer Bob Carey and his wife, Linda moved to America's East Coast. Even though the move was exciting, exhilarating, and inspiring, it was a big and dramatic change. The self portraits were a perfect way of expressing himself.
The Truth Of Beauty
Two Way Lens
I’d like to start with two quotations. The first is from an article (which I’ll paraphrase) on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s website. It describes a charming and significant portrait, although not a particularly powerful one, by a famous-photographer-to-be: This simple portrait of Annie Philpot is an important one in Julia Margaret Cameron's oeuvre; it is inscribed “My very first success in photography, January 1864.” Mrs.photography 2
www.PatriciaMcCormackPhotography.com The subject I am dealing with is located in North County Dublin, and is the largest working quarry in the Republic of Ireland. Many people do not realize the quarry exists, and also do not realize the city they live in and walk through everyday is build from the material extracted from here. A quarry stands as an enormous symbol of the consumption of raw materials by the modern world. These images show the spaces left behind when the rock has been removed, and search to find beauty in the aftermath of a destructive process for beauty can be found in the most desolate of places.

