Miriam O’Corrnor was born in Cork, Ireland in 1973 and currently lives and works in Dublin. In 2007 she graduated with an honors degree in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology. Funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, O’ Connor recently completed a Research Masters at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Her latest project Attention Seekers has been featured in numerous publications including Self Publish, Be Happy (UK), O.K Periodicals (Netherlands), LENSCRATCH (USA), aCurator(USA), UNLESS YOU WILL (Australia) and many more. Attention Seekers has been exhibited in its first solo show at The Third Space Gallery as part of Belfast Photo Festival, 2011. The show moves to Denmark's Galleri Image in Jan/Feb 2012.

Attention Seekers is a body of work which is concerned with the representation of everyday scenes, arbitrary spaces and people encountered by the photographer. While the ordinary or the everyday are habitually tied up with concepts of familiarity and routine, it is here that O’ Connor discovers infinite possibilities for image making, slicing out its details which petition for attention and assimilate allure. In Attention Seekers, the classic trajectory of ‘photographer has camera, photographer takes pictures’ is turned on its head. Here instead, subjects take on an uncertain agency of their own, discharging magnetism and appeal that is impossible for the photographer to ignore. The subjects of these images are conceived as ‘seeking out’ camera and photographer - the subjects of these images conceptualized as 'Attention Seekers'. Teasing the viewer with ambiguous clues and mischievous impressions, the images represent a curiosity around looking and seeing and a preoccupation with certain scenes that unreservedly ‘look back’. Modest or minute elements are reoccurring motifs across the series, where, time, location and horizons are regularly obscured - comparatively hazy.

Weekend portfolio selected by Philippe Garner.