{"id":261542,"date":"2026-01-01T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:26:09","slug":"photographer-ruth-medjbers-sin-sceal-eile-thats-another-story-with-sean-smyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261542\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Ruth Medjber&#8217;s Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile \u2013 That\u2019s Another Story with Sean Smyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIna new project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. This week, she meets Sean Smith who was widowed at age 35\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean Smyth photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/h_1ruthlessimagery_.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sean Smyth photographed by Ruth Medjber for the series, Sin Sc\u00e9al Eile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a project that will see me meet and chat with 365 people in one year, my heart felt it was right to start with my friend, Sean Smyth. We chose to shoot in the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, as the last time I photographed Sean \u2013 in March 2025 \u2013 we also went there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That photoshoot was very different and incredibly special. I was commissioned for a fun photoshoot and an experience to remember by Sean\u2019s husband, my pal, Conor Biddle. In January 2025, Conor had learned that he had terminal cancer. He had hoped to continue working and see the year out, but his health declined quite rapidly, and by the end of April, Conor had passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ina new project, photographer Ruth Medjber is asking ordinary people to share their extraordinary tales. This week, she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-261542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115819602409777762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}