Prints Among Men

Despite all of the relentless advances in tech, for me photography will always be predominantly a print medium. I am still absolutely thrilled to see a big glorious print of my work - these ones from my Disco Vegetables series were made for a collector by Jim Butler and Patryk Gizicki in Inspirational Arts in Dublin.

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I took this many years ago in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, while on the lam from the worst break-up of my life. Years later, a friend bought a print for his soon-to-be wife. He told me it was because “these are the best ways to enter into a marriage, or indeed any kind of relationship “

They’re still together.

Michael Kane's Studio

To commemorate one year since the death of the great artist Michael Kane, here are some behind-the-scenes photographs from his studio, taken when I was working there a few years ago. My portrait of Michael was acquired for the National Gallery of Ireland in 2024. He kept producing powerful work right up until the end, a good way for an artist to live.

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For Oliver

Oliver Stanley was a beautiful man, and a really great friend to me. He died, aged forty-one, on this day in 1995. Remembered with warmth, much love, and this dedication.

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He’d be pretty tickled to know I was posting a picture of his arse to the entire world, all these years later, and that this same image was included in a major exhibition last year. There’s a portrait of him in my Friends and Family gallery.

Talamh

I'm delighted to be part of a major exhibition this March in Momentum Fine Art, Miami. “Talamh”, featuring work by eight contemporary Irish photographers, will be formally launched by Minister of State Niamh Smyth TD on Thursday, March 12, 2026, 8pm. A book signing and artist talk will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 6pm.

Talamh is the Irish word for “land” or “ground,” and carries meanings that extend beyond physical terrain to include heritage, memory, and belonging. The show brings together works by eight Ireland-based contemporary photographers working across a range of themes and united by a shared commitment to long-form photographic projects; Conor Horgan, Shane Lynam, Fionn McCann, Malcolm McGettigan, Yvette Monahan, Brían Sparks, and Agata Stoinska. For this exhibition, Island Photographers have invited Linda Brownlee to exhibit alongside the group.

Talamh explores Ireland as a country shaped by tensions: between extraction and restoration, the inner and outer landscape, deep time and the present moment. What emerges is a portrait of a place both familiar and newly revealed, rooted in history yet continually reshaped by change. Each of the eight artists have experienced this landscape in distinct ways, responding to or interpreting it through the prism of their lived experience. Despite these individual perspectives, overlapping concerns emerge, and their works are bound by the zeitgeist of their era.

The works trace the fine line between myth and lived experience, revealing how both continue to inform the Irish gaze. Ireland is presented not as a fixed idea, but as a living, shifting territory formed by culture,politics, and the people who move through it.

Mass. Missed

I came across some out-takes from a feature I shot in Boston a couple of years ago - it was never used because the magazine went out of business.

Shot through a plastic awning outside a famous Boston Lobster restaurant

PARIS CITY OF LIGHTS

Many thanks to Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rosovsky for including my photograph from the Gilet Jaunes protests in their pop-up exhibition PARIS CITY OF LIGHTS, held during Paris Photo. The photograph was also featured in Winter Papers Volume 9, along with an essay about my Lèche-Vitrines project.

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Lavinia Greacen for The Gloss Magazine

My portrait of author Lavinia Greacen for The Gloss Magazine, taken at her home in the Dublin mountains. In addition to writing two books on JG Farrell, her latest book “Military Maverick: Selected Letters and War Diary of ‘Chink’ Dorman-Smith” has been nominated for the International Templar Prize. This is akin to the Booker Prize for military historians, of whom vanishingly few are women. The interview with her by Antonia Hart is great–it can be read here.

EDGE

Some news about EDGE, my latest body of work. This project is a personal, non-documentary response to the State’s hostility towards homeless International Protection Applicants, particularly on and around Dublin’s Grand Canal. I’m delighted it’s one of fifteen short-listed projects from over 700 worldwide submissions to Photo Museum Ireland’s inaugural International Open Awards Reflecting the Real, which opens at 14:00 this Saturday July 5th. Other works from the series will be seen in the RHA Gallery and in a 10 page portfolio in Source Photographic Review later this year.

Out of The Strong Came Forth Sweetness

I’m proud to have archival and current work on view as part of the “Out of The Strong Came Forth Sweetness GHN 30” exhibition, which takes place between May 12 - 25, Naughton Institute Building (formerly the Science Gallery) in Trinity College Dublin.

Install photograph by Evanna Devine

“Chow Chow” 40x40 cm archival pigment print, from my Disco Vegetables series.

The show also includes archival images and material about my great friend Oliver Stanley (1954-1995).

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(L-R) Poster for SHAFT, modelled and designed by Oliver, used as the Open Call image for the show.

Portrait of Oliver with his partner Fran, first seen in my exhibition “Portraits” in the Gallery of Photography, 1995.

Portrait of Oliver.

Oliver’s obituary from the Sunday Tribune and his peaked leather cap.

Some Theatre News

My first one-act play is being given a public reading, directed by Conall Morrison, in the dlr Lexicon on June 14th (Tickets). I'll also be telling a story at the Dublin Story Slam Grandslam in the Abbey Theatre on June 22nd (Tickets).

RIP Paul Durcan

My portrait of the great poet was taken for RANT magazine, and after he saw it in an exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland some years later, he was kind enough to send me a card. It said "In so far as one can talk of portraits of oneself without vanity or conceit – and I think one can – I was hugely impressed as well as moved by your portrait".

A lovely and very talented man.

I was very moved to see the portrait used on the Mass card and carried before the casket by his granddaughters Julia and Rosie Joyce at his funeral.

Photograph Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times