Editorial / Photography / Book Design
Trinity in 50
An editorial book for Trinity College Dublin that uses fifty selected objects to tell a layered institutional story.
2025
Book / Photography / Editorial System
Detail Studio
ICAD Award
Context
Trinity in 50 tells the story of Trinity College Dublin through fifty objects chosen by students, staff, and alumni. Each object works as an entry point into a different piece of the university's history: academic, social, architectural, personal, and institutional.
The book brings those fifty perspectives into one sequence, building a portrait of Trinity through the things people chose to remember, preserve, and explain.
Role
I assisted Al Higgins in photographing selected items for the book, including the Blue Clock above the Front Gate, once synchronized to Dublin Mean Time, and the cobblestone path that leads students through the institution.
My work sat between image-making and editorial design: helping turn a large set of objects, captions, histories, and page relationships into a clear visual system.
Editorial System
The design challenge was consistency without flattening the content. Each object needed a recognizable place in the book, while still carrying its own scale, tone, and historical specificity.
Images and text were carefully aligned so that each object could speak clearly on its own, then accumulate into a larger institutional portrait. The restrained system lets readers move from object to object without losing the intimacy of each story.
Recognition
The project's careful approach to storytelling, photography, and editorial structure was recognized with an ICAD award.