About Shaun O'Boyle

I live in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts, received my BFA in architecture, industrial and environmental design from Parsons School of Design in NYC in 1987, and work as a professional photographer, as well as an architectural designer.

My book Modern Ruins: Portraits of Place in the Mid-Atlantic Region was published in 2010 by Penn State University Press. This book explores the American landscape and includes photographs of four subjects: steel mills, institutions, coal mining, and Bannerman’s Arsenal located on a Hudson River Island. It includes brief essays by noted historians Curt Miner, Kenneth Warren, Kenneth Wolensky, and Thomas Lewis who offer social and historical contexts for the sites documented in the book.

My photographs have been featured in a number of books and magazines including Lenswork #77 2008 (cover and feature), 2012 issue of Loupe magazine in an article titled Chasing the Ephemeral written by curator Francine Weiss, EXIT magazine (Spain), Dylan Trigg’s The Aesthetics of Decay, The Next American City issue twelve, Weird NJ - many issues, and many others...

I have designed and self-published a number of books of other projects, including Bethlehem Steel, The Boatyard, Bazaar, Kennedy Space Center, The Asylum and Rail Lines.

My Rail Lines project was featured at the PRC Gallery in Boston in August, 2012.

Current projects include Rail Lines, and The Housatonic River, which are ongoing, where I am exploring the New England landscape, cities and infrastructure along the rivers and rail lines; and Cabinets of Curiosity, where I am photographing natural history taxidermy specimens in museums around New England and beyond. I'm particularly interested in Place, and the stories that places tell.