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Eamonn Doyle<\/p><\/div>\n

Aperture<\/em>\u2019s Lit issue introduced me to the work of Eamonn Doyle, a photographer based in Dublin. His series i <\/em>is inspired by Samuel Beckett. As he told LensCulture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I was re-discovering the work of\u00a0Samuel Beckett, specifically the \u201ctrilogy\u201d comprising the novels Molloy<\/em>, Malone Dies<\/em>, and The Unnameable<\/em>. I began to be drawn towards a number of solitary \u201cBeckettian\u201d figures I saw on the streets of Dublin, people I had seen passing me every day who seemed to be treading the same ground, day in, day out \u2026 I wondered how I might approach the photographing of these people, who were after all (and who remain) near-total strangers to me \u2026 Is it possible to take photographs of these people in such a way that will honor their essential, even existential, distance from me? \u2026 This tension between, on the one hand, the attempt, and subsequent failure, to gain knowledge and, on the other, what happens in the act of attempting-then-failing is something that interests me. It\u2019s a contradiction with which many of Beckett\u2019s characters seem to be familiar. It\u2019s also a point at which a representation, in reaching a limit point, acknowledges its status as an act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See more of his work on his website<\/a>, in Aperture<\/a><\/em>, and at LensCulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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