Alannah Ní Ghríobhta

Alannah Ní Ghríobhta is a Dublin-based photographer working with experimental analogue processes. Through film photography, she captures movement and energy, exploring themes of intimacy, emotional release, and reflection. Her work moves between the collective experience of the club space and the solitude of the darkroom, tracing the emotional transition between the two environments.

Spending extended periods in the darkness and silence of the darkroom creates a space for introspection, allowing thoughts and emotions that might otherwise remain unexamined to surface. This body of work considers both the adrenaline and sensory intensity of dancing, and the quieter release of energy that follows in the darkroom process.

Although these spaces share visual and atmospheric parallels, they remain fundamentally distinct. Existing in tension with one another, the club and the darkroom become interconnected sites of emotional processing that never fully converge.