The Legacy Project is a commission work with The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI). The NWCI initiated the Legacy Project to challenge mainstream representations of women and work and to look instead at the alternatives. These commissions aimed to create another kind of public dialogue that would amplify the advocacy work of the NWCI, the membership, interested communities and individuals.
The result of this commission was The Legacy Project a photobook comprising of images taken at the workspaces used by NWCI and its member groups, including some groups that struggle for media visibility and operate in a very transient way, meeting often in improvised settings. Some of the images direct attention outside the frame, towards everyday details and gestures, observed at these workspaces - details that all too often slip beneath the radar of awareness. Additionally, intermingled in the book are excerpts from the NWCI photographic archive - written notes, queries, remarks and images, that evoke memories of work already done, of staff and events that have come and gone. By dwelling on these kinds of photographs, these particular notes and images, we are reminded too about the complex work of representation itself.
The Legacy Project which formed part of the exhibition, Still, We Work was launched at The Gallery of Photography, Dublin on October 18th, 2013.