Alex Boyd
In this episode of Biblioscapes In Discussion I am joined by Alex Boyd to discuss his work and his recent book The Point of the Deliverance.
This book tells the story of that journey, one which would cover a thousand miles, taking in the entire west coasts of Scotland and Ireland. With an antique camera, liquid silver, glass and cyanide, I would carry my dark tent to sites of ancient settlement, from the coastal forts of Mayo and the Aran islands, to the mountains of the Ring of Kerry in the south. My hands blackened by chemicals, I would make images of places which told of lives spent on the edge of the land, of vanished communities, of cleared villages, of wrecked vessels.
