The Waiting Room

Saoirse Flanagan · 2020

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

120 × 150 cm

Flanagan spent three months with permission to photograph a hospital waiting room in Dublin — observing without intervening, building trust with patients and staff before raising her camera. This image, taken at 2:17 a.m., documents nine people in states of exhaustion that make no distinction between the worried and the ill.