Architecture nominee

Sky Line was a series of photos I made in my hometown of Marseille. Marseille is a city that has been called many names, some of which are, chaotic, dirty and architecturally unremarkable. Personally, I think it is one of the most beautiful and inspiring cities in the world and I wanted these photographs to show a different side of Marseille - one of space, design, and beauty. I used a turquoise filter on the sky so as to give an almost graphic and dreamscape feel to the photos - something to make people look at the skyline they already know so well and perhaps see it differently.

Born in New York, Dorrie McVeigh’s family emigrated to the UK in the late 70's. The impact of that move has been pivotal to her work as she looks into how our past can influence our sense of identity and belonging. Mcveigh has traveled extensively in her life, perhaps always searching for her own allegorical "homeland" and eventually in a perhaps hereditary act, unrooted her own children to make a new life in Marseille. In a recent exhibition, Mcveigh writes on this experience: “In our homeland, we are essentially held together by the fabric of friendships that have been forged by time and the common thread that these friendships and our extended family embody. When we leave this we are set afloat, there is huge freedom but at the same time we are unrooted and there is an inevitable loss in this act. For my own part, it was in the wide-open landscapes of my childhood, that I felt most whole” McVeigh uses her photography as a means to forage into the hidden regions of the “self” as she is drawn to and grapples with very personal themes such as identity and nostalgia.