{"product_id":"us-it-clare-samuel","title":"Us (\u0026 It), Clare Samuel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI have a complex relationship with my family and with Northern Ireland, where I grew up—it feels governed by a tension between distance and closeness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe think of our self as separate from our surroundings and other people, but blood relatives unsettle this autonomy, sharing our DNA, and knowing us in a particularly deep way. This entanglement may be grounding and supportive, but when you inherit things like mental illness, this intimacy can instead be painful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotographs of my childhood have a magical quality for me. The bodies they depict are precious and fragile. But the flat closed surfaces of the prints are at odds with that. I find myself wanting to give that fleshy life back to them, to reinscribe images of the person I was then with who and where I am now. To press together that absolute distance and that totalising closeness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/claresamuel.com\/\"\u003eclaresamuel.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFor those that are not familiar with the project, \u003ca title=\"TLP Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/photoireland.org\/project\/tlp-editions\/\"\u003eTLP Editions\u003c\/a\u003e is an ongoing collection, produced and designed by \u003ca title=\"PhotoIreland\" href=\"https:\/\/photoireland.org\/about-photoireland\/\"\u003ePhotoIreland\u003c\/a\u003e, that presents work by contemporary artists in the form of uncomplicated publications. These are available through \u003ca title=\"The Library Project\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/\"\u003eThe Library Project\u003c\/a\u003e in-store and online. All and any funds generated by the project go to producing more copies of the publications, ensuring we can keep promoting the artists and practices represented. These editions are regularly showcased and donated to international events and festivals, such as the Icelandic Photography Festival recently. In addition, \u003ca title=\"TLP Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/photoireland.org\/project\/tlp-editions\/\"\u003eTLP Editions\u003c\/a\u003e also grace some important shelves and collections, including that of the Hasselblad Foundation Library and the Martin Parr Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eYou can find a list of all the TLP Editions \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/collections\/tlp-editions\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/collections\/tlp-editions\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"PhotoIreland\" href=\"https:\/\/photoireland.org\/about-photoireland\/\"\u003ePhotoIreland\u003c\/a\u003e is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland to develop support projects such as the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/photoireland.org\/project\/tlp-editions\/\" title=\"TLP Editions\"\u003eTLP Editions\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by PhotoIreland\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 200\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e36 pages\u003cbr\u003e148 × 210 mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PhotoIreland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43895798268118,"sku":"UAICS","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/Us_It_ClareSamuel.jpg?v=1674407804","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/fr\/products\/us-it-clare-samuel","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}