2008 - The Irish Times, Graduating with Sophistication, by Aidan Dunne

‘The most sophisticated treatment of designed spaces was to be found in the work of Jamie Saunders (IADT) under the title Conditioned Space . His poised, considered images, some digitally manipulated, evoked the generic, manufactured environments that most of us encounter every day, spaces that we must deal with but which are not, so to speak, for us.’

2008 - RTE Radio 1, Arts Show, Sean Rocks and Aidan Dunne

SR - ‘Have there been particular students and exibits that you’ve seen that stand out for you across different media?’ AD- ‘I’d say that I have, theres an outstanding photographer in Dun Laoghaire called Jamie Saunders who has a very very sophisticated exploration of the kind of anomolous spacesthat are familiar to us at every stage of our lives within an urban context, but that we almost dont see and he has digitally manipulated images of these spaces to make us see them anew and see actually what kind of world we live in.’

2008 - The Irish Times, The Ticket, by Aidan Dunne

‘Jackie Nickerson, the winner of this year’s AIB Art Award, is a photographic artist of some distinction, and Paul Kane invited her to make a personal selection of photographic work from this year’s graduate shows. The photography was generally of a high standard, as is reflected in Jamie Saunders’s boldly conceived explorations of anomalous urban spaces....’

2008 - Metro, Finding their tripods, by Lucy White

‘Jamie Saunders, a graduate of Iadt, investigates the appropriation of nature in urban developments, the results of which are quirky and architecturally astute. the five untitled prints don’t depict anything remarkable - a dead-end, a lifeless tree - but their compositions make for arresting images. The external walls of a multi-story car park are covered in thick ivy which,thanks to Saunders’s canny position, flattens the perspective and makes the tree in the foreground appear to be levitating. Overhead neon lights recede into the darkness and draw our eye into its centre. In another image, the skewed alignment of wall panels are pleasingly abstract.’

2008 - Circa magazine, issue Autumn #125

First Shot, by Aileen Blaney ‘Saunders’s series of Photographs, titled ‘Conditioned Space’, was singled out for being “the most sophisticated treatment of designed spaces” in an Irish Times review of this year’s Dublin art-college degree shows. Across the five fine-art giclee prints selected from the project for exhibit in First Shot, Saunders displayed a precocious mastery of the medium of digital photography. All but one of these images made the familiar apace of the car park unfamiliar by zoning in not on the nearest available parking space but on the architectural designs of ramps, multi-story parking facilities and office parking. By showing form before function, these photographs enabled viewers to look at what is more often overlooked, and become reacquainted with intensely familiar urban environments. As thoughtful contemplations of spaces ordinarily seen and experienced in practical as opposed toaesthetic terms, the photographs evoke the powerful irony of the extraordinary nature of the ordinary.’

2007 - The Irish Times, RHA, by Aidan Dunne

‘As one visitor to the exhibition, a gallery director, observed, it’s always nice to encounter someone whose name is absolutely new to you but whose work seems exceptional and fully formed. Such was the case, for me, with Jamie Saunders Madden, whose November 2006, a colour photographic print, is startlingly good, a landscape from the New Ireland.’