Irish photo-artist goes from the newsbeat in Cork to cause a stir in New York

Irish photo-artist Jean Curran is causing a stir in the New York art world with her reworking of stills from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. She’s come a long way since her days on the newsbeat in Cork, writes Marjorie Brennan.

PHOTOGRAPHY is one of the many creative practices that has been completely transformed by digital technology. Photos have become ever more ephemeral, with billions of images, enhanced, memefied and filtered, uploaded daily. However, for some practitioners, the digital will never replace the darkroom — for them, photography is still an art, a process in which the time and effort expended in achieving the final result is a reward in itself.