Gallery of Photography, Meeting House Sq, Temple Bar, Dublin Tues-Sat 11am- 6pm, Sun 1-6pm Until Oct 10 galleryofphotography.ie 01-6714654

Close to Home consists of 30 small-scale photographs documenting the surroundings in which Stephen Ahern found himself over the last five years: “the hotel apartment, ordinary suburban and rural settings, intimate domestic interiors and foreign cityscapes”.

Like Stephen Shore, Ahern focuses on the everyday, the spaces in-between Henri Cartier- Bresson’s “decisive moments”. As Ahern puts it himself: “Rather than seeking out the unusual, I want to make pictures of my own environment . . . I’m interested in the difference between looking at something and looking at a colour photograph of that same thing, whether it’s something I’m seeing for the first time or a scene I’ve encountered every day for literally years.” The result is a reflective, carefully considered body of work.

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