Derry Bogside Murals Photography | Northern Ireland
Bogside Murals Across a Quiet Residential Street in Derry
The murals dominate the street long before the buildings themselves do.
I made this photograph in 2019 while walking through the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Two enormous gable-wall paintings face across an otherwise ordinary residential setting—a masked figure on one building and a woman holding a megaphone on the other. Their scale immediately changes the character of the neighbourhood around them.
I wanted to photograph both murals together rather than isolate either one. That wider view mattered. Between them are hedges, railings, road signs, pavement, windows and rows of modest homes. These everyday details give the murals context and show how completely they are woven into the surrounding streetscape.
The overcast weather helped. Colour was already subdued, and I kept the treatment restrained so the large figures and graphic shapes would remain visually dominant. The red clothing on the right-hand mural survives against an otherwise muted scene, drawing the eye across the frame without overwhelming everything around it.
What interested me most was the stillness. There were no crowds gathered in front of the murals and nothing staged for the camera. The street simply continued around them.
Derry contains history in unusually visible ways, and here it occupies the walls of residential buildings rather than a separate exhibition space. For me, the photograph works as both a street scene and a documentary record of place—the murals, the neighbourhood and the quiet space between them all sharing the same frame.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2019
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