Institutions of Home.
Smith’s image-making practice engages with the storytelling of unheralded moments within the everyday. By conceptualising photography as an act of prayer, Smith frames image-making as a contemplative process. Through seeing as prayer, photography becomes a kind of devotion, a space where reflection stirs and emotion awakens.
Sisters of the Daughters of Saint Vincent de Paul, The Residents, Saint Patrick’s, Navan Road, Dublin, Ireland.
Daughters of Charity, Holy Angels, Dublin, Ireland.
"Where human identity has suffered under the tribunal of an 'unclaimed experience,' the ruin has survived as a manifestation of this process, and this unexpected survival underpins the ruin's radical spectrality." Dylan Trigg
The Order of the Sacred Heart,
The Maternity Hospital, Castlepollard, Ireland.
The Promise of Redemption,
The Woman and Child, St. Patrick’s Guild, Dublin, Ireland.
Good Shepherd Sisters, The Manifestation,
Ard Mhuire, Dunboyne, Ireland.
"Roots spread out from a centre they themselves fix in place, lay claim to a territory, suck up historical and political poisons.” Tim Robinson
Sisters of Bon Secours, The Home, Tuam,
Co. Galway, Ireland.
The Sisters of the Sacred Heart, Bessboro Home, Co. Cork.
