Metaphor 2021
The 2021 version of Metaphor was completed in June. Metaphor is a magazine of photography by the Year 1 students on the BA Photography course in the Technological University Dublin. The project helps the students …
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Greener Than You
Worms love me. For decades I’ve been composting every bit of material possible in my back garden: not just vegetable scraps but cardboard, paper, dog poo, and coffee grounds. I throw away as little as …
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Why I hate plastic, and I think you should too.
13/7/20 Tim Kovar (Tim is a lecturer in photography in TU Dublin, but has been studying plastic waste since he was a child walking on the beaches of Florida.) Plastic waste is a big problem. …
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Back to the land
-or- How hard is it to create a circular economy? I’ve always been bothered by waste. When I was 12 or 13 I was making pasta for lunch. My mom saw me trying to pull …
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Walking through a crisis
During this covid-time we’re all worried about breathing, face-masks, sanitising hands and not touching our faces. Me, I kept looking at my feet.
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Metaphor
Metaphor magazine has gone to print! Our first year students learn to design and produce a magazine in their Photo Practice module. We talk about lots of digital applications and different ways to get your …
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Before the Big Bang- Dublin in the early 1990s
Back in the early 90s, Ireland wasn’t a very prosperous place. For lunch you could get a bowl of chunky vegetable soup for £1, or £1.20 with a thick slice of buttered bread if you …
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500 Years from Now
If there was an excavation on the site of an Irish suburban house 500 years from now, what might they find during the dig? What evidence the artefacts reveal about people, the culture, and the …
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The Myth of the Recycling Bin
TPlastic Packaging, Part 3 (last one [for now]) Plastic waste is a big problem. Plastic is all around us in our consumer culture, and we are beginning to realize how it is literally all around …
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Plastic packaging, part 2
Plastic is the junk to which our economy is addicted. Grocery stores want to wrap every head of broccoli in plastic film because it keeps them looking fresh for a few days longer. All all …
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