Parallax

Sinéad Morrissey

2013 • Carcanet

The title came last actually. I was speaking to a colleague at Queens, Joan Rahilly, about photography. She said ‘do you take photos?’ and I said no, just family snaps. She said she did, and mentioned [what parallax was] – in photographic terms it is the disjunction between what you look at through your viewfinder, and what is taken through the aperture. I got this light bulb in my mind. That disjunction – that is what I’m doing. It was brilliant to get that title.

— Sinéad Morrissey

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Parallax

Sinéad Morrissey

2013 • Carcanet

The title came last actually. I was speaking to a colleague at Queens, Joan Rahilly, about photography. She said ‘do you take photos?’ and I said no, just family snaps. She said she did, and mentioned [what parallax was] – in photographic terms it is the disjunction between what you look at through your viewfinder, and what is taken through the aperture. I got this light bulb in my mind. That disjunction – that is what I’m doing. It was brilliant to get that title.