Doug Dubois: Jordan up the Pole, Russell Heights, Cobh, Ireland, 2010

Jordan Up the Pole is a special limited-edition photograph from the latest series recently published by Doug Dubois My Last Day at Seventeen. DuBois was first introduced to a group of teenagers from the Russell Heights housing estate while he was an artist-in-residence at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, on the southwest coast of Ireland. He was fascinated by the insular neighborhood, in which “everyone seems to be someone’s cousin, former girlfriend, or spouse. Little can happen there that isn’t seen, discussed, distorted beyond all reason, and fiercely defended against any disapprobation from the outside.”