Donovan Wylie

(b. Belfast,  Northern Ireland, 1971)

Wylie’s photography is often described as 'Archaeologies', and stems primarily fromthe political and social landscape of Northern Ireland, where he grewup. His book The Maze, a photographic survey of the infamous prison inNorthern Ireland, was published to international acclaim in 2004, andbegan Wylie’s ongoing photographic study of military architecture.His photographs look at the specific nature of modern military structures, and reveal the visual relationships they haveto landscape.  Wylie’s work engages in subtlerconcepts of history, transience and territory.