The Tribute Acts

This is an on-going series of environmental portraits dealing with identity and how each of us are different people, at different times, depending on different situations – at home, at work, with family etc. These people make their living utilising someone else's identity - not their own.

They are tribute acts from around Ireland. Ordinary people, like you or me, who live part of their lives as rather extraordinary people. But of course, these people aren't extraordinary stars – they, like us, live ordinary lives, do ordinary things, go to ordinary places - shops, curry houses, cheap hotels – so that’s what we did, that’s where we went.

The incongruity of who these people chose to be, mixed with the authentic location and their mundane activities, creates a comic strangeness, an unpredictability – like the dynamics in identity itself.