These images have been made in Coolorta, a small ‘alternative’ community in the West of Ireland, a 'slow’ community that seems to characterise the antithesis of a globalised society. The individuals living there place an emphasis on sustainability and a strong connection to nature.Within this series of images landscape and portraiture are explored through experiential and embodied practice. As a person who grew up in Coolorta and spent eight years living at the site but who no longer lives there now, I find myself neither insider nor outsider. I am both unable to fix my belonging, nor to fully detach myself. Finding myself in a state of metaphorical exile (neither here nor there), I struggle to define distances and boundaries and possible definitions of the ‘place’ and the ‘Other’.
