INFORMATION
My work is concerned with how people understand themselves, each other and the worlds they inhabit. I explore these questions through photography and short film, with a particular interest in human connection, feeling, belief and agency. Increasingly, I am interested in what can happen around the camera as much as what happens in front of it — using the act of making images as a way of creating encounters, participation and connection. My background in psychology continues to inform how I approach these subjects.
Alongside my personal practice, I run the commercial photography and film practice Stills & Motion.
My work has been exhibited and screened in Ireland and internationally. The Gnomes, a short film about a group of young men who transformed a disused area of DCU into a functioning farm, was selected for the 2020 Fastnet and Still Voices Film Festivals. A portrait of the British poet Lemn Sissay was shortlisted for the AOP Awards in 2020.
My work is concerned with how people understand themselves, each other and the worlds they inhabit. I explore these questions through photography and short film, with a particular interest in human connection, feeling, belief and agency. Increasingly, I am interested in what can happen around the camera as much as what happens in front of it — using the act of making images as a way of creating encounters, participation and connection. My background in psychology continues to inform how I approach these subjects.
Alongside my personal practice, I run the commercial photography and film practice Stills & Motion.
My work has been exhibited and screened in Ireland and internationally. The Gnomes, a short film about a group of young men who transformed a disused area of DCU into a functioning farm, was selected for the 2020 Fastnet and Still Voices Film Festivals. A portrait of the British poet Lemn Sissay was shortlisted for the AOP Awards in 2020.
In 2023, I collaborated with Cineál on Threading Place, an outdoor exhibition presented across three sites in Wicklow Town as part of Culture Night. I have also documented Take Me to the River, a series of art and ecology workshops along the River Boyne, and am developing a short film about a beekeeper from Dublin's Liberties.
I am increasingly interested in projects where photography and film become part of a wider social or artistic process — where making the work is itself a form of engagement, rather than simply a means of recording what has happened.
CONTACT
finn@finnrichards.com
