Siobhan Doran
Untitled 1, from Houses That Sugar Built
Joseph Clark Collection · JCC-0030
About the work
This photograph forms part of Houses That Sugar Built, Siobhan Doran’s project with writer Gina Consing McAdam exploring historic Philippine houses connected to the sugar economy. Architecture becomes a way into the social histories that shaped these places. The image invites attention to the relationship between an interior’s visible presence and the lives, labour and changing circumstances behind it.
About the artist
Siobhan Doran is an Irish-born photographer whose work has a particular focus on architecture and interiors. Her photographs consider buildings as places shaped by use, history and changing patterns of life, attending to spaces and details that can reveal more than a straightforward architectural record.
For Houses That Sugar Built, published with writer Gina Consing McAdam, she photographed historic houses in the Philippine regions of Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Pampanga. The project examines an architectural legacy connected with the sugar economy.