Meet the Artist: Samuel Laurence Cunnane

Samuel Laurence Cunnane works with analogue photography, capturing scenes with a detached “floating eye” perspective.

Whether in Guangzhou, Tehran, the Balkans, or his native Kerry, Cunnane is drawn to the unnoticed periphery: the outskirts of the city, where plants battle with concrete; the edges of housing developments, where newly built homes surround mounts of upturned earth.

His photographs de-romanticise the popularly sentimental, with landscapes interrupted by utilitarian infrastructure, and yet their sensitivity to light, framing ...