
Belfast
- Publisher
- RRB Photobooks
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781838268398
- Specifications
- Hardcover
First Edition
144 pages
Standard and Special Editions
Black-and-white photographs
Belfast is the third Northern Irish book by Danish photographer Krass Clement, following his celebrated Drum (made in a single evening in a pub in County Monaghan in 1991) and Dublin (RRB Photobooks, 2017). After his work in the Republic of Ireland, Clement travelled north to Belfast, then still in the late phase of the Troubles, and photographed there over several weeks using the same approach he had used elsewhere: moving through the city as a quiet visitor and observer, working as unobtrusively as possible, accumulating images of faces and landscapes—children going to school, shopfronts, the windows of private homes, the moments of open space between buildings, the small details of a city under tension. Clement is best known for the brooding, melancholic quality of his black-and-white work and for his commitment to the photobook as his preferred form; Belfast continues that practice, offering a particular Danish view of a Northern Irish city in a particular hinge moment of its history.