David Farrell
Né vicino né lontano. A Lugo
All I could hear were the uneasy screeches
of the lost birds, the yelping of the stray,
and, on that sea that lacked both waves and
beaches,
the footsteps, neither near nor far away.
Giovanni Pascoli
Internationally renowned Irish photographer David Farrell took Giovanni Pascoli’s poem “In the Fog” as the starting point for a series of enchanting and surreal photographs taken in the eastern Po Valley, which investigates the theme of the relationship between fog and the landscape.
The photographer immersed himself in landscapes enveloped in a thick mist, creating mysterious images that allow glimpses of details that slowly emerge from the fog in a suspended atmosphere that, as suggested by the title of the work, makes them seem neither near nor far (in Italian, “né vicino né lontano”).
David Farrell was born in Dublin 1961 and read chemistry at University College Dublin, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1987.
He is currently a lecturer in photography at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. He has worked independently and on “communion” projects with partner Gogo della Luna (Gudók). He received the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2001 for “Innocent Landscapes” and participated in the European Eyes on Japan project in 2004. “Crow”, his collaborative multimedia film with composer Benjamin Dwyer, was premiered during the Composers’ Choice Festival at the National Concert Hall Dublin in 2005. His work was exhibited at FotoGrafia, the international photography festival in Rome, in 2005 and at Houston FotoFest 2006, and is currently the subject of a documentary by Donald Taylor Black (Poolbeg Productions) for the Arts Council’s “Documenting the Arts” series.
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