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His previous project, Trade, was similarly hard hitting. "I made more than 20 separate trips to Honduras, probably 30 trips to Mexico, " he says. "I was on the road, probably three weeks a month shooting and living with these people. [Migrants] are particularly powerless ... I think, at the end of that show, I definitely was carrying a lot of the weight of what I saw. Honduras was particularly violent at that time. People in the film had lost very close family members. We were there for that and then with them for months after. We were kind of grieving along with them." Inspired by societal changes, Ross McDonnell spent several years working in Ballymun as residents were being relocated in anticipation of the complex’s final demolition. The estate, constructed to replace Dublin’s inner city tenements in the 1960s, was a failure from inception. BALLYMUN – DUBLIN, IRELAND – Image from Ross McDonnell’s book ‘Joyrider’ (2021). One of the best rides I've ever had. First time ever mag bigay ng review. Apologies agad sa ayos ng thoughts. Lol. XD He notes a tension in the book as the photographs move from youthful exuberance to something darker circulating around drugs. “In the context of the book and the narrative, it is quite innocent at the start,” he says. “And then you have this sort of moment where there’s a pacing shift [from] ‘Oh, wow, this is a lot of fun’ to ‘Okay, this is getting kind of serious now’. The book documents that transition.” What gratitude can do to help change your life......I'll admit I'm cynical and not at all into self-improvement manuals or books offering ways to sort my life out. Maybe that's because any I've dipped into previously just didn't seem to be about me at all, they were for other people with high-falutin careers or fancy lifestyles.
Joyrider’, now beautifully published in its complete form for the first time, depicts a marginalized youth reclaiming space in the face of this “urban regeneration.” We see, writ large, the forces and tensions that shape and mold us all as young individuals: creation and destruction, inclusion and escapism, environment and identity.I set out years ago to capture something wild and untamed that I felt was disappearing from Irish society – the sad part is that it came true.” At times it felt like I was reading Angela’s personal diary, it was so personal and chatty that I forgot it was a book and not a private conversation. She talks about feeling disconnected from yourself and your body, and how to regain that connection. She speculates around how to listen to your specific needs and tend to them, aka performing proper self care, not #selfcaresunday.
He hopes that ultimately what comes across in the images is that these young men were reacting to the system and environment they found themselves in. “The structures that were around this group of young men are hugely significant in this narrative,” he says. “The council was giving people surrender grants to move out of those flats and [moving] people from more vulnerable populations into those flats ... This was the story of Ballymun, this tightening gyre of social factors and they were the last generation to grow up in that environment. So I think the book really tried to dig into that in a subtle way, where there’s the presence of this building and its destruction. This sense of transgression and freedom that these guys are exerting over it is victorious to me.” I suppose the kids in RBW and Streetwise might’ve gone on joyrides in stolen cars and then burned them if they’d thought of it, but I sorta doubt it. The kids I ran with in the 90s—mostly all playacting or, rather, holidaying at being wild-in-the-streets sorts of kids—might’ve talked about it, but never would’ve done it. Even the harder kids we knew, the ones who definitely knew how to boost a car, wouldn’t do much joyriding and definitely wouldn’t burn anything: any cars they boosted were headed to the chop shop; it was a moneymaking venture for them. But, then, we were all more or less bougie American kids. The kids in Joyrider appear to be working class Irish, and there’s quite a bit of difference between growing up under advanced/global capitalism and growing up in a nominally socialist country. The book is a breathless ride: a fleeting but glorious glimmer of transcendence, a middle finger raised to the State and its misguided social experiments.
I've never read a book before that felt less like reading a book but actually felt as if I was sitting in an Irish kitchen with a cup of tea in hand while having a really open chat with a friend. Experience the joy of hassle-free travel and efficient deliveries with JoyRide — the Philippines' leading homegrown superapp for transportation and delivery services.
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