Gary Somers

Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Gary Somers is a fine-art photographer whose work explores the intersections of mental health, urban identity, and nature. After earning a BA in Photography from IADT Dun Laoghaire in 2007, he pursued a Master of Fine Art at NCAD, where he deepened his visual language and conceptual framework.

Gary’s lens is often drawn to the textures and rhythms of Dublin – its streets, its architecture, its hidden corners – seeing in the city both the human struggle and the poetic energy that comes with daily life. Alongside the concrete, he finds solace and counterpoint in the natural world: green spaces, allotments, gardens, trees, and the delicate boundary between cultivated and wild. These elements become a visual vocabulary through which he dialogues with notions of self, mental health, and belonging.

His projects often meditate on inner landscapes: anxiety, memory, solitude, and the ways environments—urban, domestic, natural—shape emotional states. Whether photographing a quiet allotment early in the morning, or the hushed weight of a city under dusk, Gary’s images aim to balance intimacy with broader reflections: how place and psyche influence one another.

Gary works freelance and exhibits his work locally and beyond. His practice involves both documentary impulse and careful aesthetic framing: chosen light, texture, composition all serve to amplify the emotional resonance of his themes. Through his art, he invites the viewer to see Dublin anew, to consider what is under-noticed in both city and nature, and to engage with the fragile but persistent threads of mental health that weave through our environments.