For the past four years, Tajette O’Halloran has been returning to the Bexhill Quarry on the outskirts of Lismore to document the people and ecosystems within its boundaries. The location, with its aqua-blue water nestled under towering sandstone cliffs, is an abandoned brickworks quarry that has become a popular swimming destination for locals and tourists.

The quarry serves as a constant backdrop to an ever-evolving microcosm, bearing witness to the people coming and going, the flora blooming and dying, and the landscape shifting and changing — evoking a sense of place as temporal and rhythmic in a more-than-human world. 

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“I've spent many hours there over the last four years, but I don’t spend a lot of time with the subjects. It’s more about the quarry itself and what is happening in this space, and why it’s happening, rather than individual in-depth stories about the subjects. It’s difficult to separate the subjects from the space, or the time. It’s a moment, lots of moments, that I am capturing.”

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