2006: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry

"The photographs of Christopher Reid, taken at a closed-down Magdalene convent, not only comment on the changing role of the Catholic Church in Ireland, but are also haunting images of the loss of faith, abandonment, and the demise of Place."

Klaus Ottman, Curator of EVA 2007, EVA catalogue essay 2007

Fig 1: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 1: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 2: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 2: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 3: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 3: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 4: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 4: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 5: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 5: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 6: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 6: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 7: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 7: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 8: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 8: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 9: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 9: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 10: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 10: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 11: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 11: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 12: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 12: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 13: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 13: Images from an abandoned Dublin Convent
and Magdalene Laundry (2006)

Fig 14: Image from a banner that has been slashed and
torn found in an abandoned Dublin Convent and
Magdalene Laundry

Fig 15: Detail from fig.14: A slashed and torn banner found in an abandoned Dublin Convent and Magdalene Laundry

Fig 15: Detail from fig.14: A slashed and torn banner
found in an abandoned Dublin Convent and
Magdalene Laundry.