Why are we here?
A lot of people have influenced me over the years of whom a key one is Philippe Plisson. He took some photographs of the boat graveyards in Brittany that I found particularly interesting – I wanted to say inspiring there but it’s a bit kitsch at this stage. Boats tend to catch my eye anyway.
This photograph was taken in Skerries, north County Dublin some years ago. The harbour has since been cleaned up a lot – it’s a working harbour anyway, in the same way that Howth is. But I am sure it is not the only harbour with abandoned boats on it.
While looking for something to do of a long weekend I decided to see if I could find another abandoned boat that I knew about, on a beach in Donegal somewhere. While looking for information on it, it occurred to me that there might be quite a few old, dead and abandoned boats around the place.
I have a lot of projects, of which another involves lighthouses. I grew up away from the sea, so I don’t understand why I have some affinity for it.
A lot of people have started helping me with this; the people on boards.ie photography, the people on kitesurfing.ie and the people on thepropertypin.com. A few of my friends are also coming in with information. I hope to get a lot of this done through the summer, as far as possible.
