We understand ourselves through the spaces we occupy.
My photographs explore the psychological relationship between the self and place — tracing a movement from vigilance and uncertainty toward belonging, self-possession, and inner ease.
About the Artist
Siobhán Costigan is a conceptual fine-art photographer whose staged self-portraits investigate presence, visibility, and identity through the body’s relationship with landscape, architecture, and interior space. Her work traces a movement from vigilance and containment — in hotel rooms, behind rain-covered glass, and in nocturnal interiors — toward self-possession and the quiet certainty of belonging.
She has been recognised internationally, including the European Photography Awards, London Photography Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, ND Awards, Global Photography Awards, Muse Photography Awards, International Photography Awards (IPA), FotoNostrum Magazine Awards, Aesthetica Art Prize, Helsinki Photo Festival, Fine Art Photography Awards and Asia Pacific Photography Awards. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Venice, Barcelona and New York, and featured by Artdoc Photography Magazine, Lenscratch and the Auckland Online Festival of Photography.
Current Exhibition
Confluence - New York
Held Up, from After Nightfall
23–25 October 2026 · One Art Space, Tribeca
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Inside the Work
My photographs move between landscape, architecture, and interior spaces, using the solitary figure to explore how we inhabit the world — psychologically as much as physically.
Muted colour, atmospheric light, and carefully staged environments create a visual language of restraint, tension, and quiet presence. Across the work, spaces feel protective, exposed, watchful, or expansive — reflecting a movement from vigilance and uncertainty toward belonging, self-possession, and inner ease.
I use self-portraiture not simply to depict myself, but to place the body inside these environments and ask what they reveal about identity, visibility, and the way we learn to occupy space.
