Congratulations are due to three debut novelists I’ve recently photographed.
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Jimmy
Very sad to hear that Jimmy Nichols has died while trying to rescue someone from drowning.
Read MoreNew York: The Colours of Spring
A Walk in the Park
An audio recording of a walk across Central Park, from the Met to Strawberry Fields.
Read MoreFirst Loves
A pilgrimage in New York
Read MoreMichael 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.
Home
I’m delighted to have a work in the current Rua Red Open exhibition 'Displacement and Belonging' - Home, which is on view between 24 February and 22 April 2023
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A guide to where some of my prints are currently available for purchase.
Read MoreA Week in Annaghmakerrig
A recent stay in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
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Death by Water
A commission from the T.S. Eliot Foundation
Read MoreCulture Night 2022
Two of my five photographs that will be exhibited on September 23rd as part of the Íova Group Culture Night exhibition in Studio Ex, 72 Francis Street, D.8. This year the theme is Countercultures, with a focus on subcultures and the experiences of minorities. #CultureNight2022
Asleep 4, Paris
Asleep 3, Paris
The Man with the Moving House
This is my portrait of musician Breanndán O' Beaglaoich, which was taken as part of a series of portraits of artists-in-residence at the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris. He’s featured in an upcoming RTE documentary 'The Man with the Moving House’, which documents Begley’s fifteen year battle with Kerry County Council to build a small traditional home in his ancestral village on the Dingle Peninsula. The film airs on Thursday, 25th August at 10.15pm on RTÉ ONE, and you can see more of my en résidence portraits here.
Three Exhibitions
It’s the last chance to see the three exhibitions in Dublin which are currently showing my work: the RHA Annual and Photo Ireland On Portraiture close this Sunday the 24th, and the SO Fine Art Editions show Still closes on July 30th. It’s been a good month.
Always a Good Idea
Two weeks in Paris.
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My recording of a section of Ulysses for Shakespeare & Co, Paris.
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With artist Joy Gerrard and my portrait of her, on view in the 192nd Royal Hibernian Annual exhibition till July 24th. Photograph by Kate Horgan.
Six Shows
News about upcoming exhibitions featuring my work, and a major solo show in the Autumn.
Read MoreThe Campaigner
Tom Clonan is a very interesting character. He’s a former Army officer and whistleblower, who produced a damning report about the mistreatment of women in the Defence Forces.
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Behind-the-scenes photo by Ailbhe O'Donnell
The Ball Jar
He smiled and reached into his pocket, saying he had it in a small glass jar if I'd like to see it?
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Jonathan Philbin Bowman ( 1969-2000) photographed for Harpers & Queen magazine, mid 90’s.
My friend Jonathan Philbin Bowman, journalist and broadcaster, who died on this day twenty-two years ago.
He was such great company - precocious, quick-witted, argumentative, hilarious and utterly original. I’ve never met anyone quite like him, and still miss him a lot.
You can hear his voice in this beautiful, moving tribute by Roger Doyle, who took an answering machine message Jonathan had left him and set it to music.
The portrait was made for a profile in Harpers & Queen magazine written by Sean O’Hagen, and you can see a print of it in the Little Museum of Dublin’s collection.
Fintan O’Toole, photographed at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in June 2019
We Don't Know Ourselves
Congratulations to Fintan O'Toole, who has just won the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2021 for his We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958.
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