David Stephenson

Ann and Ollie, Main Street, Wexford, 2023

Photograph | Unframed: 55 x 80 cm; Framed: 59 x 84 x 3 cm

‘I took this portrait while I was recovering from Covid. During lockdown, I made a short film in which I tried to portray what we all experienced: the isolation that enhanced one’s sense of aloneness. Something of that silence and separateness resonates in this image. What drew my eye was Ann’s red coat, the condensation that made a ghost of Ollie, and how they were separated yet connected by the cracked paint of the window frame. These details made a transitory stage suffused with pristine light, the same ordinary light that falls into every window on every street.’ 

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WINNER OF THE ZURICH PORTRAIT PRIZE 2023

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