of other spaces
The photographs from this project where undertaken in the now decommissioned former British Army barracks of Lisanelly/St Lucia, Omagh in Northern Ireland. The work attempts to engage with histories both personal and communal, but, in particular they are reflection on one family’s time spent living in the barracks.
These photographs therefore compel us to engage in an act of imagining what was there , an exercise in “postmemory,” a way of making the past and imagined somehow real. The photographs somehow become a repository of narratives of powerful experiences that preceded birth but that nevertheless transmit so deeply as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.
Anthony Rush is from Omagh, Northern Ireland.