The first photo the series looks at was taken by amateur photographer Jane Shackleton in 1895. The image of Bríd Mullen, simply dressed and standing by a spinning wheel while heavily pregnant documented ordinary working people in domestic settings for the first time in the history of Irish photography. Jane Shackleton was a well-to-do woman with influence and the development of photography allowed her to capture the remote Aran Islands in the late 1800s. Her photographs led to over 100 members of the Antiquarian Society visiting the island.