Michael by me, me by Michael

Michael Snoek and his wife Dorothee have been family friends since I was a small boy. He was working as a geophysicist in Hamburg when I passed through as a teenage runaway, and he was kind enough to get me a life-changing job with the Max Planck Institut that took me off to live and work in Greece and Morocco as a geo-electrical surveyor. Some years later they moved to Ireland and Michael became very involved with photography and being one of the three founders of the Kamera 8 gallery in Wexford. He’s just launched his fantastic new site, link here.

Much like myself, Michael is not half as stern as he sometimes seems in photographs.

Michael Snoek, photographed at home in Wexford, July 2020.

I think I was about nine when Michael took this picture of me.

You can see more of my portraits of friends and family here.

These two beauties...

Alicia Ni Ghrainne and Michael Kinirons outside Baltimore, West Cork.

…are getting married in Baltimore today, and I’m very sorry I can’t be there. Wishing them much love and happiness together.