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
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.
What have you got to say for yourself?
I first met Margaretta d’Arcy around the age of 12, when she and John Arden stored the sets from one of their plays at a holiday home in Portumna my father shared with Tom Kilroy.
Years later I shot these portraits of them for a piece on married couples in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Even though I did both portraits in the same room, 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 into my face 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.
I last met her in 2019, when she and filmmaker Eaven Aiken were passing through Paris on their way to Spain. Eaven was making a radio documentary about her - I hope it gets aired at some point.
