stephen sharkey - STESH design
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A complete chronology of photographic work is hosted on Flickr. Please click HERE

I use photography to investigate personal philosophy and to reflect upon experiences and memory, and the perpetual interaction between the two. Through a developing language of specific motifs, as well as general symbolism and associations, I also explore and question the conscious and unconscious communication between people and their environment.

Walking through an environment, experiencing it, and allowing myself to be distracted and affected by objects, shapes and textures, I use a camera to create a frame for consideration, or to record what can sometimes be an unconscious reaction. Ideas, feelings and concepts that I have been exploring can, at times, also become focussed and realised upon entering a scene or space. The abstracted frame can be used to describe, provoke or question these explorations. Although personal projection is, I concede, the primary activity, there is also a desire to explore the remnants of those who have passed through a space at another time. As well as being used to represent or express my own ideas, remnants in a scene can be viewed as containing the expression of the individual who deposited/created it, intentionally or otherwise, and so lends itself to the feeling of a space. The edges of personal and environmental influence are transient, not always easy to identify and perhaps infinite – ideal places for exploration. 



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​the deliberate act of transcending adrenaline
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for you, d. now leave
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something about risk
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starts sinking in
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​the dogs died at the park last night
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i love
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don't blink
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i sold you and you sold me
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it's not static
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captivated by the absence of horizon
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a muse
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object in space
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i don't know how to leave
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photograph of an interior
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cataract memory
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sunset on wall
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declaration of absence
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the anatomy of a movement
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it's the answers that'll kill you
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you had it last
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the known comfort of theory
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the direction of the eye
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six years or nothing
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the future bypassed
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we
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last exit
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yellow is
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one.two.three.four
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it stares back at me
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loop. strange loop
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what we call love
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gift
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conference
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holidays
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a portrait of inconsistency
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what use is it without intuition?
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untitled
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on leaving
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game theory
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present. tense
INTERVIEW PROJECT 

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  • About
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    • coffee table
    • cube table
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    • mirrors
    • poster hanger
    • coasters
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    • serving board
    • clocks
    • small tray
    • interior door
  • Commissions
    • CONCERT"
    • garden bench
    • northern rye
    • listening room
    • cabinet for glassware
    • rehearsal studios
    • other
  • photography
  • Contact