Small-town girls and soft summer Cobh nights in Doug DuBois photography

There is a certain romance about turning Sweet 16 but being 17, going on 18, is a different matter altogether.

Pondering his own youth in New Jersey, that’s what American photographer Doug DuBois discovered when his month-long artistic residency turned into a , Co Cork.

The result, My Last Day at Seventeen, is a graphic account of the growing pains of the young residents of Russell Heights, capturing the coming of age drama of a working-class community in Cobh.