I am applying for the Haas Scholarship http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/
This award grants a generous amount of resources to ambitious students, to enable an extended period of concentrated research in an area of their choosing.
I grew up in Ireland and have been dying to spend some time exploring and recording the vast social change that has occurred there in the last thirty years. I plan to interview five women about their experiences of shifts in the social fabric of Ireland. I will also photograph and paint specific sites that have undergone significant change. The end project will be a documentary film, photographs and paintings that will be on display in an installation in the Kroeber art gallery at UC Berkeley.
I've been editing and re editing my proposal, getting clearer about my concepts and my outline of what I aim to do. I will post it once it is a little more refined. I find out mid- March if I receive the award and if so I plan to travel to Ireland in May or August and will spend around 3 weeks there doing research and photographing sites.
I will open this site up to the women that I interview also so that they will co-author the site.
Once I post my proposal I would love feedback on which aspects are interesting to viewers and any ideas or input will be greatly appreciated. Back to editing...
