The Selector Live by Joe Kerrigan

An Imagefull of Experience

Most of us would walk past a crumbling unloved dilapidated building and not give it a second look. To us it's just something else that needs fixing, ugly and past its best. Not so Joe Kerrigan.

Joe has a rare eye, a natural eye for his work. You can’t learn this, you either have it or you don't. Be it a picture of the late great Joe Strummer with every fibre of his body alive with the essence of rock n roll, or the study of two heavily vandalised shop doors, spewing with the neglect of a society that doesn’t give a toss. They all have something only the rare few can capture in a photo, that certain something that manifests as human factor, be it an actual person or just urban decay. It's there in all of his work, a spark that can equally please, or more often, make you feel uncomfortable, by the stark reality of the image. The mundane takes on a life of its own, giving the viewer an image to explore, the more you explore, the more you learn, the more you learn the more you need to explore.