Pictures take you upstairs and downstairs in the ‘Big Houses’ of Ireland
A BIT like the advice on how to eat an elephant (in small bites, apparently) perhaps the way to look back into our past and the ‘Big Houses’ of Ireland — the Downton Abbeys of our shores — is through small snapshots and seemingly random flavours: that’s what a taster-plate exhibition in Cork has set modestly out on.
Today, thanks to the freedoms of digital photography and camera phones, everyone’s a photographer. In the 170-year history of the medium of photography, there’s been an exponential explosion in ‘capturing’ moments of time.
