Martin McKenna
Photography

Life

A tall vase of dried flowers — pink roses, bunny tails and dark seed heads — standing on a wooden sideboard against a sunlit net curtain. A lone figure on a broad forest track, dwarfed by tall trunks that arch overhead in low autumn light. A person in a dark jacket and orange hat walking away through marram grass on a dune top, the sea and a bright, cloudy sky beyond. A restaurant table laid with wine glasses and tumblers, a candle burning inside an amber bottle, and a sprig of yellow flowers in a green glass vase. A young tree in yellow-green spring flower against a striped pink and grey apartment facade, a woman in white walking past on the pavement below. Black and white: an open palm held up to the camera against a plain grey wall, fingers spread. Black and white: a street corner in hard sunlight, a shopfront marked Tobak beneath an awning, and a single figure walking through the light at the right. Looking up at a tall stone tower block, its topmost floors lit gold by low sun while the rest of the facade stands in shadow against a pale sky. Overhead: a knobbled celeriac root on a scratched, dark metal surface. A row of angled white concrete slabs — an outdoor sculpture — standing on gravel in front of birch trees under a blue sky. Black and white, overhead: four white eggs in a moulded paper box on a plain pale surface. Black and white: an old three-wheeled delivery moped with a wooden flatbed, left standing in long grass at the edge of a field. A heavy bank of grey cloud over a beach, with a single orange lifebuoy on a post above the marram grass. A still canal reflecting cloud and sky, its banks thick with autumn trees and a pale building closing the view at the far end. A bed of mixed summer flowers in the foreground of a park, with a pink pavilion and a clipped hedge beyond. Black and white: a steep upward view along a brick facade of shuttered windows, an airliner crossing the cloudy sky.