After the Agreement, Contemporary photography in Northern Ireland: Sarah Tuck

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After the Agreement – Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland by Sarah Tuck published by Black Dog Publications draws on conversations prompted by the photographs of John Duncan, Kai Olaf Hesse, Mary McIntyre, David Farrell, Paul Seawright and Malcolm Craig Gilbert.

The book traces some of the hesitancies and compulsions that shape interpretation and meaning in the wake of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Across the themes Spectrality and Urbanism, Place as Archive and Between Memory and Mourning, After the Agreement – Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland demonstrates photographs as agonistic spaces where the meanings of post conflict and post Agreement are opened to debate and disagreement.

By making photographs the primary object of investigation and conversation the primary medium of enquiry After the Agreement – Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland explores the affective meaning of images through a shared task of thinking and feeling, listening and speaking.