Voices Of The Rising

Jan Carson joins Podcaster in Residence Zoë Comyns to talk about photography and how images can open the door to fiction . Jan discusses her multitasking approach to reading, her grandmother’s photographs including candid and amusing photographs taken around the North of Ireland. Jan has written a specially commissioned short story for this podcast, imagining a fictional reader, inspired by the collection item: CLON1989 from the National Photographic Archive - a glass plate negative of [Augusta Caroline Dillon and Luke Gerald Dillon with camera on tripod reflected in a large mirror, Clonbrock, Ahascragh, Co. Galway, circa 1865] Jan says “ I think in terms of composition, I really like that kind of stripped backness. It's reflected in the room, but it's also feels reflected in the art. I spent some time in the Clonbrock collection looking at other photographs, and this one feels slightly different from a lot of the others because there are beautiful landscapes. There are arrangements of, you know, groups of