Rory Maguire - Photography
Photograph, A3, 2026, Atlantic Salmon population collapse 20th CenturyThis species once moved powerfully through our seas and now its absence feels easy
to overlook unless like me, you witnessed its decline over a lifetime. The rusting of the
steel is significant as it mirrors the gradual erosion of the species, a slow, steady diminishing,
year on year.
Photograph, A3, 2026, Trophy
This performance photograph is an ironic display of an animal as a marker of success.
By posing with a rusting salmon carcass I question what is being celebrated. The use
of my own body means i am not seperate from the problem being explored but am a
part of it. The image sits between humour and unease, using irony to reflect on the
ways in which environmental damage is being normalised or overlooked
Photograph, 90x100cm, 2022, GONG - Girls on Girder.
This photo is based on Ebbets iconic lunch atop a skyscraper 830 feet above Manhatten. I wanted to elicit a dilemma, a feeling of uncertainty. To trigger parental feeling because the girls oblivious to danger so do you
allow them to have fun and learn by experience, or do you spoil the party?