Born in 1960, Tony Carragher hails from Crossmaglen in County Armagh, Ireland. Carragher self-exiled from Ireland in 1978 to work in the United States as a journalist and photographer. His first published photographs, which quickly established his reputation, appeared in such journals as the Albuquerque Arts Review, Madison Politics, San Diego Streets and The Village Encounter. The politics of private lives in public spaces has been a core theme of Carragher’s and three US photographic exhibitions – The Body Politic (Dallas, 1998), American Voyeur (New York, 2000) and Acts of Injustice (Miami, 2006) – offer intense meditations upon the ethics of human intervention in the  landscape and the relationship of community to architectural environments in the postmodern age. Carragher has travelled extensively throughout Europe and lived in Spain for five years, which gave him access to the socio-political deveopments of contemporary Spanish life.

More recent projects include Al Andalus (2007) Imaginary Terrains (2010), Scorched Earth I-IX (2013), Gaze (2015), Trinities I-VII (2015) and Veil (2016). Diatribe Records and numerous publishing houses including Doire Press, Wurm Press and Carysfort Press have used Carragher’s images. Trinities I-VII premiered at the Crescent Arts Gallery for the Belfast Book Festival in 2015.

'My photography is an investigation into the relationship between representation and spectatorship. I try to explore the torsions between a supposedly objective image and the assumptions and biases of the spectator viewing that scene. The image, as unvoiced witness, thus opens up the space within which, say, a rural setting can be viewed varyingly within a decline/survival nexus. But to what extent does the photograph suggest or even impose its own connotative messages? Is there such a thing as an agnostic representation, an agnostic perception?'