Vote No. 1

Mark Duffy
Vote No. 1

Photographs: Mark Duffy

Text: Mark Duffy

Publisher: Anzenberger Edition

56 pages

Year: 2015

Comments: Bound with cable ties, covers made of recycled corriboard election posters, 28 x 21 cm. First edition, 2015. Trade edition of 400 copies (there is a special collector's edition of 100 copies). The trade edition has 4 different covers to choose. In perfect condition.

The Irish landscape was littered with electoral campaign advertising during the recent European, local and national by-elections.Vote No. 1 documents this and examines the culture of election advertising in Ireland. The series focuses on the accidental, and often gruesome, disfigurements the electoral candidates‘ faces suffer – an unintended consequence of their posters‘ erection. These images reflect the Irish electorate’s increasing disillusionment with the political process after years of harshening austerity politics.