Whilst researching for a new project (working title ‘An Ideal Transition’? - probably more about this later) I came across a project by Irish photographer David Farrell called Innocent Landscapes. He, and the project, is proving difficult to track down on the web, so I can’t provide very big pics. So, making the best of a bad lot (and some of these images load very slowly)…
From the publishers website
In May 1999, The Northern Ireland (Location of Victims’ Remains) Bill was passed in the House of Commons; it provided an amnesty to help the identification and location of people who had disappeared during the ‘Troubles’. Six locations were identified and became known as the ‘Sites of The Disappeared’. These were the burial places of eight people murdered by the IRA in the 1970s and early 1980s. In thirty years of conflict and atrocities, this small group of people stood apart. They were all Catholic and, as it turned out, had not only been taken from their families but also from their homeland to be buried in the South. In June 2000 the search was finally suspended. Three remains had been located, three closures permitted; for the remaining five families there was a site rather than a spot, a closing rather than a closure.
Farrell’s project was to photograph these ’spots’…
The burial sites were from a 10 year period, some are marked, others are left with nothing to indicate what happened
BTW, if anyone can find more examples of this I’d be grateful for a pointer!
