Since 2004 he has been developing a body of photographic works as part of a practice-led PhD research project looking at the photographic image’s role in the formation of historical narrative. The function and role of memory in the simulation of experience directs the practice to read historical consciousness of both an individual and collective nature. The project uses the cultural myths surrounding the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikes to look at the relationship between narrative fiction and historical truth. The photographic approach draws on the deep psychological currents that motivate the martyr figure and the contemporary concept of using the body as a weapon.