When I look at any image where I know some of the backgrounds and what has gone on it that particular part of the world, I start to look closer as Paul mentions in the Vimeo clip about taking no more than 15 seconds and you turn the page and move on. I hadn’t heard of his work but the word “Sectarian” straight away resonated with me. Partly because Belfast is somewhere, I’ve been before.

The text above mentions the detail of what happened. The motorcycle, the street corner. You can then visualise the youth standing there minding there own business and then bang the noise of the submachinegun going off!

Had the images shown bodies or even items of the deceased I would say it is documenting the findings as such. These I feel show an emotional side to it. Reading into the picture and the text and place yourself at the scene. Of which they also document what happened just minus the victims. It is like a crime scene without the body. A photo I feel no matter what documents something whether it is a place in time or moment. Surely it is the same. It is how the individual looks at something as we know art is subjective from one person perspective to another. Had these images not had the text to them id find them harder to look at searching for any connection, with the text you see and understand what he is showing.

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