I was delighted to be invited back to the Fumbally Exchange, where I worked for several years, to show and discuss two of my short films. They asked for a description of what I was planning to show, so I gave them ‘ a drama about a middle aged woman going out to try to get laid, and the other a kind of love poem to my favourite inspirational place.’
It was fun!
Very glad to have two works in the excellent Iova Group Culture night show
Read MoreWonderful news today about poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin being shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize
Read MoreI’m very happy to have work in several great shows at the moment:
Read MoreMy portrait of writer Nicole Flattery, whose new book “Nothing Special” has just been given a rave review in the The New Yorker.
I spent a key part of my adolescence in Dun Laoire, and I’m very much looking forward to the opening of this exhibition in Dlr Lexicon Municipal Gallery later today
Read MoreDetails of my work currently on show in various galleries.
Read MoreCongratulations are due to three debut novelists I’ve recently photographed.
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Very sad to hear that Jimmy Nichols has died while trying to rescue someone from drowning.
Read MoreAn audio recording of a walk across Central Park, from the Met to Strawberry Fields.
Read MoreA pilgrimage in New York
Read MoreMichael 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 was one of the 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.
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
Read MoreA guide to where some of my prints are currently available for purchase.
Read MoreA recent stay in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
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A commission from the T.S. Eliot Foundation
Read MoreTwo 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
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.
