BROKE: MARK WALSH
Lens Magazine|August 2022
IN THOSE GLIMPSES THAT PRESS THE IDEA THAT NOT ALL IS WELL IN OUR SOCIETY, IN OUR WORLD, I HOPE THERE IS BEAUTY THERE TOO, A NOD TO CLASSISM, OUR ILLUSTRIOUS BEGINNINGS MEETING OUR FRAGILE PRESENT. ON WE GO.
MARK WALSH
BROKE: MARK WALSH

"When I started to make art, it was with paint and mixed "W media. Later on, it became a hybrid of paint and digital. And then, I stopped creating art for nearly a decade; I went fly fishing instead. Nevertheless, it connected with the world like art had previously done.

Agricultural policy changes in Ireland meant that the rivers were now and still are polluted. So I had to find something else to place myself in the world.

I had never really attempted to use photography as the principal image source. It had always been an element that could be moved around within other elements. I wanted to try making images with just a camera, no compositing, just photography, click.

In 2019, I started to take pictures on the street. Down a river of failures, I had some successes and luck with my first photos in their own right. I realized similarities to fly fishing, you travel light, carefully, alert, map out territories, paths, times that can be fruitful, where the sun will be, and when the opportunity is gone, photo or not, you move on. You get into the flow state.

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