Not Known
Not Known – But Loved | Not Known – But Seen | 1992 – 2026
Children, young adults, adults and their children, looking into the camera looking to the viewer.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the product of my imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
My Fiction – My Family!
No 2.1 | 2023
No 2 | 1998
No 2.1 | 2023
No 5 | 2023
No 5 | 1999
No 2.3 | 2023
No 2.2 | 2024
No 3 & no 4 | 1998
No 1.1 | 2023
No1.2 & no 1 | 2025
No 1 | 1999
No 1.1 & no 1.2 | 2024
No 1.1 | 2024
No 4 | 2000
No 1.1 | 2024
No 2.3, no 2.1, no 1.1 & no 2.2 | 2023
No 5 | 2004
No 1.2 | 2025
No 2.3 | 2024
No 2 | 2003
No 2.2 | 2025
No 2.1 | 2024
No 5 | 2006
No 1.1 | 2023
No 2.3 | 2024
No 3 | 2000
No 2.1 | 2024
No 2.1 | 2023
No 4 | 2004
No 2.1 | 2023
No 2.2, no 2 & no 2.1 | 2023
No 2 & no 5 | 2005
No 2.1 & no 2.3 | 2023
No 2.1 | 2025
No 3 | 2003
No 2.2 | 2023
No 2.3 | 2023
No 5 | 1999
No 2.2 | 2025
No 2.3 | 2024
No 2 | 1999
No 1.1 | 2024
Not Known – But Seen | Not Known – But Loved.
A photographic series of portraits spanning a thirty year plus period.
Children, young adults, their children, looking into the camera looking to the viewer.
Isolated from the mayhem, isolated in the frame, isolated to create a feeling of quietness, introspection and contemplation.
My aim is to portray the total absorption of my models in their own reality and to offer a twenty-first century image of the stillness and exclusion as seen in the great Italian and Dutch portraits of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the product of my imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Once upon a time on the West Coast of Ireland there was a family.
Ordinary people, ordinary lives.
Not the grinding despair of the poor nor the intoxicating glamour of the rich!
An average family.
Normal people!
The drama of the ordinary celebrated.
I have chosen a middle class family because of their very ordinariness; their lack of extremes. They do not have the dramatic visual props off the very poor or very rich. Consequently the dynamic of the image depends on me, the photographer.
Thirty odd years ago before the eventual wave of immigrants, a foreign man arrived on the West Coast of Ireland and finding acceptance in a family there, he immediately started to photograph their lives.
I am participating, looking, seeing, imagining and taking photographs.
Even though it is not my intention every photograph is also a record of a person, a time & a place.
My Fiction – My Family!
Bob Negryn