{"id":1916,"date":"2018-10-09T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kordex.imaginem.co\/?page_id=1916"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:39:38","slug":"the-orchard-of-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/portfolio-items\/gallery\/the-orchard-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchard of People"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Orchard of People<\/em> project started with weekly visits with my camera, to a local community garden. The Garden came about from the concern of a group of likeminded neighbours who wanted to make use of a communal space hidden away between the houses and laneways in Bayside, on Dublin\u2019s northside. It was in its 4th year when I began my work.<\/p>

Initially, I gazed broadly and took photographs of the gardeners at work. I took documentary style and portrait photographs of everyone. I felt I wasn\u2019t capturing the depth of the place or its people. The sounds, the energy and the meitheal needed more, so I asked each of the gardeners to write down their personal thoughts on what the garden means to them.<\/p>

Their words focused my work, a short paragraph from each, describing why they turn up each Saturday\u2026<\/p>

\u2018A social lifeline\u2019<\/em> – Christian<\/p>

\u2018Time in nature with neighbours\u2019<\/em> – Tom<\/p>

\u2018A good balance for my sedentary office job\u2019<\/em> – Niall<\/p>

\u2018Getting your hands dirty in the soil\u2019<\/em> – Olga<\/p>

\u2018We are all of a similar mindset in the Orchard of People who choose to engage with life and community\u2019 – Brendan.<\/p>

My lens began to capture the character of the place. I took photographs of a gathering of people laughing, working, and getting their hands dirty, the oasis of green, The Orchard of People came alive through my lens.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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GALLERY The Orchard of People The Orchard of People project started with weekly visits with my camera, to a local community garden. The Garden came about from the concern of a group of likeminded neighbours who wanted to make use of a communal space hidden away between the houses and laneways in Bayside, on Dublin\u2019s northside. It was in its 4th year when I began my work. Initially, I gazed broadly and took photographs of the gardeners at work. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3351,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1916","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":86,"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1916\/revisions\/3832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranwhelanphotography.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}