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.
What have you got to say for yourself?
I shot these portraits of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden for a piece on married couples in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. They refused on principle to appear in the same picture as they weren't actually living together. Margaretta filmed me as I photographed her, and when we were finished took me up to the attic where there was a tangle of wires hanging from a bare bulb in the ceiling. She flicked a switch, thrust a microphone at me and said "You are now broadcasting live on the world's only Irish language, feminist pirate radio station - what have you got to say for yourself?" Not a lot, as it turned out.
