The Skinny Showcase: Victoria Ruane

Victoria Ruane is a photographer from Wigan, who graduated this year with a BA (Hons) Photography from Manchester School of Art.

Back Window Looking at Dad's Shed
Remnants of my grandmother’s past and day-to-day life through her struggles with memory loss; fleeting, intimate and momentary.

“Back Window Looking at Dad's Shed is a collection of imagery from family albums, keepsakes and my own documentations overlapping and intertwining; retrieving elusive moments in time and bringing them together to re-stitch these fragile moments of past and present that are so easily lost.

“This piece of work was photographed around my grandmother’s home in England and in her childhood home of Mayo, Ireland. This project was a chance to explore the stories about Ireland my grandmother talks so fondly about, with her past and her present day-to-day life documented through photography.

“I am a photographer who is currently working with the themes of family narratives, memories and the exploration of my own heritage, using mainly analogue photography to explore these. I also handmake bound artist books, which has become the main way I display my current projects.”