Families
A bumper album of different kinds of families, for the season that’s in it.
There are more photographs of friends and family here.
I also do private commissions, if interested please feel free to get in touch.
I Can See Liam Now
I’ve been working on a series of portraits of artists-in-residence commissioned by the Centre Culturel Irlandais, and after making one today of Liam Ó Maonlaí we recreated the first photograph we did together. It was for a poster for the Hothouse Flower’s first single, released in 1987, which was neither yesterday nor the day before. He’s still looking great.
Lord of the Rings
A recent NYT piece about the bagel war in Montreal reminds me that when I was packing at the end of my last visit there, I left most of my t-shirts behind so I’d have more room for bagels.
PS: St. Viateur for life.
There are more of my Montreal photographs here.
Just want your extra time and your
Ireland for @ireland
My friend Helen O’Rahilly is curating the @ireland twitter account this week, and put out a call yesterday for photographs of Ireland. I sent her a few, and here is a selection of some of my other favourite images of the country.
Sunday in Montmartre
Part of the really interesting / disturbing Roger Ballen expo in Halle Saint-Pierre
Dominique and the Lobster
Tangled Roots & Twisted Tales
I’ve known Ed McGinley for a long time, even before I photographed his band The Dixons in the 90’s. It’s great to see his latest album Tangled Roots & Twisted Tales described as a “slow-burning pleasure” in a recent Irish Times review. You can buy it here.
Ed McGinley in NCAD, Dublin.
There are more of my portraits of performers here.
L'esprit de l'escalier
L'esprit de l'escalier is a French expression that no French person seems to have heard of, which describes what it’s like to think of a perfect response long after the opportunity to deliver it has passed.
I was leaving La Guarida in Havana when I noticed him coming down the staircase, and when I asked for a photograph he knew just the right pose.
There are some more of my Havana photographs here.
Taken on my first visit to the MEP, in the company of my favourite exhibitions coordinator.
The staircase in my last apartment. Monter ces escaliers aide à garder le cul soigné, as they say.
Etymology
Borrowed from French esprit de l’escalier (literally “mind of the staircase”), with the definite article le (“the”) at the beginning of the term elided to l’. It refers to a description of the phenomenon in the essay Paradoxe sur le comédien (Paradox of the Actor, completed 1778 and published 1830)[1] by the French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot (1713–1784). During a dinner at the home of the statesman Jacques Necker (1732–1804), Diderot was left speechless by a remark made to him. He wrote: « l’homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu’on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu’au bas de l’escalier » (“a sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument levelled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again at the bottom of the stairs”), that is, when one is already on the way out of the house.
Phuong Le
Amanda Feery
Amanda Feery is one of Ireland’s most successful young composers. She has written many orchestral pieces, as well as music for stage and screen, including for Rouzbeh Rashidi’s Phantom Islands. She is currently working on an opera, as you can hear in this great podcast interview that was released today. We did this portrait beside the Royal Canal in Dublin.
There are more of my portraits of artists here.
Into The Woods
I was given an unusual commission over the summer - to photograph some woods in the Wicklow mountains. They belong to a friend’s father, but as he’s become too unwell to visit them she wanted some prints made so she could bring the woods to him.
Here are some of my favourite images from the shoot.
He renovated this little cabin himself.
Boston Buildings
Fall Colours in New England
Taken while I was shooting around Boston for Cara magazine last week.
Cyril
Un portrait de M. Cyril Kamir à l'occasion de son soixantième anniversaire.
Paris Street Art, Part Two
September Windows
Portimao, September 21st 2017
Paris, September 20th 2019
Paris, September 25th 2018
Paris, September 25th 2018
Portrait of a QRGP*
Did a few headshots of model Paul Kerr after working on a shoot last week in Dublin. He’s dead on and great to work with - check out his model page here.
*Quite Ridiculously Good-looking Person
