About

Luca Quinn is an Irish photographer whose work deals with real lives and the spaces they occur in. He explores the political, social, cultural, and day to day of the modern day and its history, and looks to view the present in its historical context through analogue photographic methods and archive materials. He seeks to document the real spaces and moments of life, and the way identity and history decorate and scar location and people, inform their growth and change, and give hints to where society may be headed. His lens places value in the most simplistic, every day moments and spaces, as well as the broader political and social events which dictate how those every day moments are allowed to exist.

His work is undertaken using almost exclusively analogue photographic materials and processes, bourne of a belief in the value of creating a physical document through photography. His practice is about tangible photographic objects and documents and questions the value of an image which can be viewed but not held. In the modern age, where an image or photograph is as ubiquitous as any individual wants it to be, Quinn insists on using analogue materials in order to preserve the unique value of an photograph, any photograph, through its physicality and materiality.

His first major project, started in his graduate year on Arts University Bournemouth’s BA(Hons) Photography course, is Enniskillen. This intimate look at his hometown in the rural County Fermanagh in North-West Ireland and South-West Northern Ireland explores the ways the town was affected by the 1989 Remembrance Sunday bombing, the Troubles, and its increasing neglect and economic decline through views on the spaces, buildings, high street, and housing estates in which people live. The project is to be exhibited at AUB’s Summer Show 2024 in June and OXO Tower’s Bargehouse in July 2024, and images from the series were shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2024.

He is currently based between Bournemouth and Enniskillen.

Contact

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/o_cuin/
Email: lucaquinn1@icloud.com

CV

Education
2021-2024 - BA(Hons) Photography - Arts University Bournemouth

2021-2023 - CertHE in Film Production - Arts University Bournemouth

Exhibitions
2024 - Enniskillen at Arts University Bournemouth’s Summer Shows at TheGallery - 28th June - 6th July

2024 - Enniskillen at Bellows Collective Group Exhibition at OXO Tower Bargehouse - 11th July - 15th July

2023 - In Motion at Boscombe Arts Depot

Awards
New Contemporaries 2024 - Shortlisted

Publications
July 2024 - The Irish Times - Anything to Declare Review: Dylan Quinn’s impressive project gives four artistic impressions of the border

Work
2024 - Stage Manager for Anything to Declare

2024 - Being a Boy Acting Workshops - Assistant Facilitator

2023-4 - Fundraising Management for Bellows Collective

2023 - Director of Photography for The Bothy (Undergraduate Film Production Project)

2022 - Social Media Manager and Production Assistant for International Beckett Festival

2021 - Rhoa Editor (Undergraduate Film Production Project)

2021 - Tomatoes Director (24hr play project at Salisbury Playhouse)

2020 - The Violinist director (A-level Performing Arts)

2020-2021 - Inside/Outside Festival Volunteer

2016-2020 - Assistant Youth Dance Facilitator for Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre

2019 - Volunteer for Fermanagh Live Festival

2017-2019 - Happy Days International Beckett Festival Volunteer