Eva O'Leary's guest appearances

Eva O'Leary

The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography

Michelle Groskopf

Alys Tomlinson

Annie Collinge

Christopher Anderson

Alec Soth

Catherine Opie

Diana Markosian

Lydia Pang

Jack Davison

Catherine Hyland

Alice Mann

Charlotte Jansen

Prarthna Singh

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Laia Abril

OwlTail

Eva O’Leary has been producing photographs in and around her hometown of Central Pennsylvania, ironically nicknamed Happy Valley. Gaining access to college parties, dorm rooms, and proms and other social spaces of those in the midst of pivotal coming of age moments, O’Leary examines individual vulnerability in these transitional times. Her work explores intimate moments to deftly confront power dynamics as it falls along gendered lines, especially within the lives of adolescents.Eva’s work navigates structural and social systems that perpetuate ideologies of fantasy, power and control within American society, specifically focused on the impact on young women and their experience in the world. Her work is deeply personal, using her own experiences, memories and journals as the foundation of her practise. We recorded this episode in early April 2020 during the Covid 19 pandemic, which was bringing up many questions about the role and purpose of art and creative work for both of us. This inevitably ended up being a core part of our conversation because how could it not be. Gem Fletcher talks to Eva O’Leary about process, growth and how art can be both therapy and liberation.evaoleary.com@evaolearyRecorded in London, UKEdited by John WebbMusic by Judd Greenstein – Change from AwakeDesign by Ruby Wight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eva O’Leary has been producing photographs in and around her hometown of Central Pennsylvania, ironically nicknamed Happy Valley. Gaining access to college parties, dorm rooms, and proms and other social spaces of those in the midst of pivotal coming of age moments, O’Leary examines individual vulnerability in these transitional times. Her work explores intimate moments to deftly confront power dynamics as it falls along gendered lines, especially within the lives of adolescents.Eva’s work navigates structural and social systems that perpetuate ideologies of fantasy, power and control within American society, specifically focused on the impact on young women and their experience in the world. Her work is deeply personal, using her own experiences, memories and journals as the foundation of her practise. We recorded this episode in early April 2020 during the Covid 19 pandemic, which was bringing up many questions about the role and purpose of art and creative work for both of us. This inevitably ended up being a core part of our conversation because how could it not be. Gem Fletcher talks to Eva O’Leary about process, growth and how art can be both therapy and liberation.<a href="evaoleary.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">evaoleary.com</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/evaoleary/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@evaoleary</a>Recorded in London, UKEdited by John WebbMusic by Judd Greenstein – Change from AwakeDesign by Ruby Wight Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Eva O'Leary - On Process