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JAMES FRAHER DOCUMENTING Click here to view Jim's photos of Patrick's work as it evolves.
* * * * * * PEATLANDS EXHIBITIONRuairi O’Cuiv and Kevin O’Dwyer curated an exhibition exploring the unique crossroads between the peatlands and contemporary art practice. Peatlands was an exhibition that looked at artists who have been inspired by bogland ecology, mythology, archaeology, industry and technology. Invited artists included Sean Mc Sweeney, Martina Galvin, James Fraher, Jorn Ronnau, Ann Mulrooney, Maurice MacGonigal, Joe Hogan, Joan Mackarell, Alan Counihan, Caroline Madden, Grace Weir, and Joch Nichol. David Bellamy, botanist, author and broadcaster, who also has a strong affinity with the peatlands of Co. Offaly, officially launched the exhibition at the Aras an Chontae, Tullamore, County Offaly on June 8, 2008.  "
Fraher's photographs speak of the connectedness of work to earth and the permeable boundaries between conceptions of hands, tools and land known well to workers on the peatlands. His photos, which are at once both specific and anonymous, celebrate a modest heroism of daily manual labour. Fraher's work can remind us of the lives of manual turf cutters and the skill and talent of traditional turf cutting techniques."
* * * * * * The 2009 Blues calendar from Pomegranate will feature portraits of blues musicians by James Fraher.
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Stories From a Sacred Landscape by Caimin O'Brien Featuring photographs by James Fraher
With the flair of a storyteller and the keen eye of a practicing archaeologist, Caimin O’Brien looks beneath the monastic ruins of County Offaly to uncover Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise. O’Brien draws on archaeology, history, poetry, folklore and legend to create vivid portraits of twenty-five sacred places within Offaly.He recounts the tales that surround the county’s first saints and the monasteries they founded. “Caimin O'Brien presents a vivid picture of the life and times in the early monastic settlements, highlighting their role in society and their changes in fortune though political upheavals. This attractive book breaks new ground in presenting a visual feast with excellent photography and design work by James Fraher and Connie Scanlon. The engaging combination of storytelling, folklore, historical and archaeological facts will appeal to a wide audience whilst providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of how these early monastic sites functioned within society.”
—Pat Wallace, Director, National Museum of Ireland
Click here to order from Kenny's Bookshop in Galway Click here to order from Mercier Press Click here to order from Amazon UK FEATURING SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES FRAHER Click here to download a PDF
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University of Texas Press published Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood with photographs by James Fraher in 2006. Texas Zydeco is Wood's second collaboration with Fraher, following the book, Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues. Roger Wood and James Fraher spent years traveling the "zydeco corridor,", interviewing and photographing hundreds of authentic musicians, dancers, club owners, and fans. As their words and images make clear, zydeco, both historically and today, belongs not to a state but to all the people of the upper Gulf Coast.
Bon-Ton Mickey
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