Opening October 11, 2001, this is the first showing in
Ireland of the award-winning work by Irish photographer, David Farrell. Innocent Landscapes is a series of photographs made at the 'sites of the disappeared'. These are the burial places of eight people who were 'disappeared' by the IRA in the 1970s and early 1980s. Farrell's colour landscape photographs were made during the search for the remains in 1999 and 2000. The images bring the viewer on a multilayered journey through the shifting, unfixed nature of landscape and memory, presence and loss. Through his lens, the sites - woods, bogs, a seaside carpark - become "lieux de mémoire", places invested with personal and political meanings.

Originally exhibited in Actes Sud, July 2001 in Arles.
Available as a touring exhibition from December 2001.

David Farrell was born in 1961, read chemistry at University College Dublin, graduating with a Ph.D in 1987. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1990 and is currently a part-time teacher of photography in the Dun Laoghaire Institute for Art, Design and Technology. From 1994 he worked with his partner, the writer Gudok, participating in several group and two-person shows.

Innocent Landscapes is his first one-person exhibition.
David Farrell is represented by the Galerie Knabe, Berlin.

The accompanying book is available in five language editions:

English (Dewi Lewis Publishing)
French (Actes Sud)
German (Edition Braus)
Spanish (Lunwerg Editores)
Italian (Peliti Associati)

Touring Information

For further information, galleries in the UK and USA please contact:
Tanya Kiang
Gallery of Photography
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar,
Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tel: (353-1) 671 4654
Fax (353-1) 670 9293
email: info@galleryofphotography.ie
www.galleryofphotography.ie

Galleries in Continental Europe please contact:
Galerie Francoise Knabe
Thomas-Dehler Str. 3
10787 Berlin
tel: +49 30- 26 557 666
fax +49 30- 26 557 667
m: +49 175 58 29 379
email: Galerie.Knabe@t-online.de
www.berliner-galerien.de
www.bvdg.de