The Swedish social worker documenting Dublin pub culture: ‘I usually have a Guinness in one hand and a camera in the other – and I talk to people’
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The Swedish social worker documenting Dublin pub culture: ‘I usually have a Guinness in one hand and a camera in the other – and I talk to people’

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By her own admission, Carina Hedlund is not a pub-goer – at least not in her native Sweden. So how does a woman born and raised in the northern Swedish city of Skellefteå end up documenting both the most raucous and intimate moments in the pubs of Dublin?