Entry Title: " Refuge"
Name: Joanne Mullin, United Kingdom
Category: Non-Professional, Documentary


Entry Description: Refuge explores the nature of domestic conflict by examining shelters across Northern Ireland. It is a contemplative observation of a temporary place that allows for women and children to have a period of transition. The series represents the psychology of the shelter space both as a place that contains a trace of the inhabitants' stories, and one, that despite every attempt to make it feel like home, still has a resonance of the buildings true purpose.

Joanne Mullin was born in Northern Ireland and studied photography at the University of Ulster, Belfast. Her work examines the psychological nature of architecture and landscape while exploring the traces that conflict may leave behind. Joanne lives in Belfast with her two children.