Doherty is an artist born and based in Derry, Northern Ireland, where most of his inspiration of works comes from, he's a artist figure of which he makes contemporary art and photography, video and sound installation works and his first international exhibitions began in the early 1980s, in which he explores the relationship of memory and place as well as public and private. He uses installations and photographs hat explore human fragility where we tend to make mistakes, and the human memory and to engage with stories that represent our lives. His work is truth telling and they move beyond the surface of social, political and psychological values, that affect our daily lived and this is a window of truth to look into and what we may need to change in our lives and to be open minded.

He photography deeper isolated setting and uncovers the truth and that conceal a troubled past which is quite interesting. He has also been able to explore and look into terrain in forensic detail in which he trained his lens on different sites such as the Mexican border which reveal historical truth and he sometimes uses diptychs which is a photograph or artwork with two parts that link to each other such as 'midnight' 2022.

His work is mainly in black and white which I quite like. His stories within the images contain brutality bleed truth metaphorically and some deception but overall, he uses language and disorientating images to reflect the brutal truth and reflect how we approach histories of trauma.

This 1st one to our left is 'winter landscape' 2022 and the one on the right is a diptych in which the two images link with each other called 'midnight' 2022. The one below is called 'BELOW THE BORDER a fork in the road' The description for this photograph is 'The place where Ciaran Doherty was executed in February 2010, accused of being a British informer, he was abducted two hours before his body was dumped at the side of the road. 1986 - 2012'. 

This is one of the articles I researched after looking up on the photograph to find out more information and there a few further related articles.

These images are from the exhibition 'REMIAINS' from the Kerlin gallery. Remains is a potent portrayal of the generational nature of conflict and its vicious circle. The first one on the top left is 'Remains (Kneecapping behind Creggan Shops), 2013', going across is 'Remains (Along the Wall), 2013' and the rest are 'REMAINS, 2013

'Doherty has a few images that were exhibited in kerlin Gallery Unknown male subject - 2002, Empty- 2006, Lapse -2012, REMAINS-2014, Loose ends-2016.

Some publications also include No smoke without fire 1996, Buried 2009, Disturbance 2011, Lapse 2012, Unseen 2013 -one of my favourites- Again and again 2015, Home 2016 which is a video installation and outlines some of the political situations going on at the time in northern Ireland.'

Unseen is a photobook Doherty has made in his hometown, Derry and Donegal borders from 1985 and 2013. There is a variation of photographs placed with text in black and white and very few with colour and a mix of black and white images and colour images, I like the contrast between the two and how there is a variation of landscape and rural and I want to include this type of photography in my work of documentary landscape and researching into this artist has helped me focus and what direction to go in for my personal investigation. The pages below are taken from the digital version of Unseen.

The photo has been taken at a lower angle to show the trash that there is and show that its not something that you van ignore. Using black and white to take picture so you can see between the different mid tones and it brings the photo out.

This is a double page spread and the photo is placed on the right hand side with the title of it lower down on the page. The composition of the image is leading lines and what I also like about this photograph is that further down it gets, the mistier it gets and its quite interesting and how the power cables slowly disappear into the mist. The mood conveys melancholy and the photo is more isolated and enclosed and makes you feel claustrophobic in a way as the shadows on the building contrasts to the light further away from you. Here Doherty hast used and overlapped word to describe maybe what he's feeling of this image. The contrasts of the colours give it depth.

These are two different images from different pages both on a double page spread with the image centred on the right hand side. There is a completely different mood and contrast in the two photographs. The one on the left that has darker blue tones which represent coldness, melancholy and harshness sometimes, the light hitting on it looks like the light reflecting off the moon into this interior as there is lots of holes and cracks and metaphorically this may represent the flaws and downfall of the northern Irish government  downturned sofa. While on the right hand side the colour scheme has changed this is because of the different lights that are in the environment and there was a yellow lamp the  enlights the photo with yellow and the image is quite oxymoronic as yellow is suppposed to represent a happy enlightened colour but you then look at the image and the pavement needs doing up theres patches all over and graffitti on the wals and its falling apart.