Barns 5
On an early November morning, as mist lay low across the Meath landscape, I finally paused at a place I had passed countless times. This haybarn, with its steadfast vernacular stone stable beside it, had long been marked in my mind, waiting for the right moment to be seen, to be held in stillness. That morning, the softened light and veil of mist compelled me to stop, to step into the quiet dialogue between building and land.
The haybarn rises in its familiar form - practical, unadorned, yet deeply evocative of rural Irish life. The stable beside it tells of hands that worked the land, of a rhythm between people and place now fading into memory. A telegraph pole cuts through the composition, its wires stretching across the frame, a reminder of the modern world pressing against tradition.
This image forms part of Barns 5, a series of one hundred barns captured over five years. Each barn, humble yet dignified, stands as a witness to a vanishing vernacular - an architecture shaped by necessity, rooted in landscape, and carrying the quiet poetry of the everyday.
I hope to have my book of Barns published in 2026.