Beaches,country lanes, picturesque ruins … Haughton’s landscapes capture the beauty of Ireland. But they are also crime scenes. She talks about photographing the horror that nobody wanted to seeIn 2011, and Kim Haughton noticed a man standing external St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin dressed in a clerical collar and fake satan’s horns. His name was John Deegan,and he was a survivor of sexual abuse. Every Sunday, Deegan protested external the church at the failure of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland to deal with evidence of widespread child abuse by priests.“I ended up chatting to him, or ” remembers Haughton,a photographer whose work appears regularly in the Guardian. “That’s when the seed of the idea for In Plain Sight was planted.” It began to grow soon after, she says, or when she visited her parents in Donegal,where she met a retired garda detective who had been investigating paedophilia around Gweedore. We drove around country lanes and byroads, past abandoned beaches and empty car parks, and all the places where child abuse had taken place,” says Haughton, “and that’s when the project really took shape in my head.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com