Photo of Day: The work of Irish photographer/visual artist Eamonn Farrell is included in an exhibition currently running in the Gorgeous Gallery in Brooklyn. Farrell’s photographs deal with the issue of Climate Change and his dramatic images feature the naked female form in various Bog of Allen settings on the Kildare/Offaly border. The Bog Women images are from his "Death and Resurrection" series, which also featured a video which was a finalist in the online section of the Waterford International Short Film Festival 2022. Farrell began dealing with the global warming theme in 2009, with his "Elements of Nature Project," of which his present work is a part. He says of his current show: "Our Irish bogs contain the history of our nation, going back to the time the first primitive people arrived on our land from the south and east of the known world. The remains of many of them are buried deep in the bogs which are scattered through our countryside and which are now central to the sometimes bitter debate on Global Warming. Is an awakening possible? The peat bogs are a fantastic natural resource with which to combat Climate Change by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. At our peril should we continue to use them to harvest fuel. To continue to do so has the double effect of contributing to the amount of carbon heading skywards and the destruction of the sinkholes capable of trapping it." Farrell’s work has featured in galleries, books and magazines in Ireland and abroad. More from his website at www.eamonnfarrellart.com. Gorgeous Gallery is at 161 12th St. Unit 1R, Brooklyn, NY 11215. The exhibition, which runs until Thursday, June 15, is open 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 7 p.m.
