abigail clark - photo journal

8/2/2019 Abigail Clark - Photo Journal

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By: Abigail Clark


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This photograph is entitled Heaven or Hell.This is an image of the backside of the Church of Assumption in Howth, Co. Dublin.The photo has been lightly edited with an slight increase in the blacks, and an increase inthe clarity of the photo to make the architecture more pronounced. There is also a slight

vignetting to the image to make the church stand out more. My goal with the photographwas to create a conversation about the idea of an afterlife. Ive heard when you enter areligion, typically you are in it for life, that you can turn your back on a church or you candie and go to heaven, exiting the faith out the back door.


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This photograph is entitled Bleeding Limestone.This image was taken at eye level in a graveyard located at Corcomroe Abbey in the

Burren, Co. Clare. The photograph was manipulated to be in black and white usingthe greyscale on the colors. The abbey was a Cistercian monastery built in thethirteenth century. Many of the gravestones on the inside of the abbey dated back acouple of years. Many believe there is an afterlife and you will be rewarded, but manyalso believe that when you die thats it, you are bones that are buried and will beforgotten. This abbey seems forgotten, stuck in the northern corner of the Burren,much like whoever was buried underneath this weathered grave.


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This photograph is entitled Remembrance.This photograph was taken at Corcomroe Abbey located in the Burren, Co. Clare. Theimage was been manipulated to increase the blacks and clarity. The greens and yellows

were also increased so when the saturation was lowered, they would still have color.The image juxtaposes immortality and the afterlife. Beneath a headstone, someone haslaid fake flowers. The flowers will never die and can be interpreted to symbolize a fewmeanings: eternal life and the afterlife, or that whoever passed will always beremembered.


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This photograph is entitled Forgotten.This image was taken from a crouching perspective of agravestone leaning on a wall at St. Marys Abbey Cemetery.The blacks and clarity of the photograph have beenincreased and the saturation of the image has beenlowered to make the green life stand out in the image. The

cemetery dates back to 1050 and in October 2011 there wasa landslide that disrupted stones and unearthed coffins.This gravestone was moved due to construction in the area.

Without knowing this information, the gravestone seemsto have been pushed to the side, ignored, forgotten whilelife grows around it.


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This photograph is entitled Pray.

This image was also taken at Corcomroe Abbey located in the Burren, Co. Clare.Very little has been done to this image, merely an increase in the blacks andlowering the saturation. The photographs shows a man standing at his wifes grave

who passed away the previous year. There is something forbidden about theimage, an intrusion on this mans private act of praying and remembering his wife.The grave is marked with flowers and shrubbery and shows that even whensomeone has passed, they are not truly forgotten.


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This photograph is entitled Enter if you Will.

This image is of the Ballintoy Parish Church located in Ballintoy, County Antrim. Thephotograph has a slight vignetting to draw the eye closer to the church. The blackshave also been increased in the photograph. Unlike the first image in the series, thisphotograph is of the entrance of a church. It allows the viewer to choose whether ornot they want to accept this religious belief. With the graveyard in front it challengesthe viewers belief in the afterlife. If one enters the church one will be faced withbelieving in eternity after death and always be remembered. If one does not enter theycan choose to live and be forgotten like the hundreds of graves that have weatheredthroughout the ages and are lost and unknown when all the survivors have perished.

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