Ciarán Walsh took this photograph with a pinhole camera during a workshop led by Cork-based artist Harry Moore. The workshop was part of an analogue film and photography mini-fest that Walsh curated for Heritage Week 2025. Inspired by Louis Daguerre’s Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement (1838?), Walsh posed for 12 seconds against the wall of Kerry Writers’ Museum with St John.s Theatre and Culture Centre – a repurposed church – in the background. The long exposure prevented anything in motion being caught on the photographic media inside the camera. Although, this was far quicker than the 4 to 5 minutes Daguerre needed, the effect was the same – time stands still.
