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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."
How was he looked on by the young people he photographed? Were they suspicious of him? “There were always people dropping in on their way to do something else, hanging out for a bit. I was just another one of that cast of characters.” 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).
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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. 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.
One of the best rides I've ever had. First time ever mag bigay ng review. Apologies agad sa ayos ng thoughts. Lol. XD What fascinated him was how, in the face of suburban desolation, these young men were reclaiming their environment. “They’d throw parties in those empty apartments and when people moved out, the council would [cover] them up, and then they’d get this saw out and open it up,” he says. “It was a real cat and mouse thing. The guys could open one flat with the consaw and then go through the balconies or make holes in the walls to keep another flat sequestered. If there was a raid on that flat, where [people]had seen the door being opened, the flat next door would remain untouched, because the doors had been sealed. So there was a lot of subterfuge happening in the buildings. They became really adept at controlling their territory. There were exit routes.”READ: Recap: Fenton street taped off as police stand guard ¦ Officers are at the scene on Oldfield Street 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 mould us all as young individuals: creation and destruction, inclusion and escapism, environment and identity. This was the story of Ballymun, this tightening gyre of social factors and they were the last generation to grow up in that environment
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