Joyrider
Ross McDonnell
Thirty Nine Books, Charcoal Book Club
English
Softcover
Dummy Book
112 pages
220 x 290 mm
Year Not Available
ISBN Not Applicable
Hardcover
Edition of 1000
112 pages
220 x 290 mm
2021
ISBN 9781527291669
Joyrider is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of the Ballymun housing estate. The book documents rites of passage on the ‘block’: experiences that convert youthful abandon to criminal enterprise. Inspired by societal changes, Ross McDonnell spent several years working in Ballymun as residents were being relocated in anticipation of the complex’s final demolition. The estate, constructed to replace Dublin’s inner city tenements in the 1960s, was a failure from inception. Despite its utopian vision, the lack of planning and infrastructure rendered the area chronically under-developed. Ballymun became an iconic symbol of the city’s underclass, ravaged by successive drug epidemics and inter-generational malaise. Joyrider, now beautifully published in its complete form for the first time, depicts a marginalised youth reclaiming space in the face of this “urban regeneration.” We see, writ large, the forces and tensions that shape and mould us all as young individuals: creation and destruction, inclusion and escapism, environment and identity.
The PhotoIreland Collections houses both the final edit publication of Ross McDonnell’s Joyrider, as well as a dummy book version of it.
(source: https://www.totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/arts-culture-features/joyrider-ross-mcdonnell/)
About the Artist
Ross McDonnell (1979 – 2023) was a filmmaker and photographer born in Dublin, Ireland and based in New York City. McDonnell’s early experience of travel and his love of cinema sparked a fascination with image making and storytelling. His work reflects his interest in the open-ended nature of non-fiction and the tensions, inherent in the photographic process, between transience and permanence.
rossmcdonnell.com
(source: https://rossmcdonnell.com/about)
About the Publisher
Charcoal Book Club is the first and only subscription service for photobooks.
charcoalbookclub.com
(source: https://charcoalbookclub.com/)
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