Things have been very busy in my small world of late with preparations for an upcoming show in the Photographic Archives Gallery.The show featuring my Leaving Dublin Project and the fascinating story of the Argentine Irish Diaspora,as told by Maurice ...

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There is no doubt about it less and less photographic work today is being carried out on traditional film stock.Pretty soon it will be impossible to find someone working on large format film unless you are pretty dedicated and detective ...

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One night last February I met with Darragh Ross and his good friend Kenny D'Arcy the Pair where ready to travel off to Australia in a matter of days and we had a long chat on the beach,before and after ...

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Audraí  O'Dwyer was in a great mood the night we met on Dublin's Grafton street she was visibly excited about what lay ahead and was looking forward to her trip to Sydney Australia to start a new job as communications ...

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I met Paul Horace in a queue to enter R.T.É. studios It was december and I was in A bit of a panic as to wether I could reach the 70 mark in time for production of my video piece(airs ...

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I have to say the experience of shooting the leaving Dublin project has been for me a huge process.On one hand you have the technical,the logistical,the weather,the locations,The Timing,the edits,the posts.On the other hand you have the emotions,the people,the kinship,understanding,camaraderie,the ...

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Some weeks ago myself,Ray Hegarty,and Ian Monahan met with Elaine Bannon,A youth worker on her way to Australia.on Elaines request we had made a plan to shoot at Kilmainham Gaol ,scene of many a murder and hotbed of English suppression ...

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Meet Naoise Mc Gee,Arecent college graduate in Film and Russian!Naoise is on her way to the busiest city in the world so its a good job that she worked at Mao restaurant where things are always full of hustle and ...

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Welcome to the second post of 2012.This one has been a while coming as things have been fairly hectic around my studio since the new year kicked off.I have been very active over the last 5 or six weeks trying ...

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As mentioned in my last post I have arranged 3 projections of my Leaving Dublin video piece"on leaving" for march next.I noticed whilst looking for a suitable New York venue that the Irish arts centre had recently (dec 7th last)  made ...

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Difficult as it is to move away from home and make a fresh start one person who is rising to the challenge and is full of optimism for the life ahead is Graham martin.Graham, from Loughshinny, sat there for me ...

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 I have got to say a big thanks to all at the Irish Times for affording me my first ever Full page broadsheet piece(web version here)Thanks Ciara and the features Editor for elaevating my project.One of my main reasons for ...

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Meet Conor McMahon,you may have met before here on the liliputian(click here)Conor left his home in Dublin Back in August 2010 and had this to say at the time about the house he was leaving behind" The house is ...

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Lat Friday I had a call from Jade O Callaghan,  I was to photograph her on the following Sunday and had just been introduced to her by her good friend and fellow sitter Claire Wier.Jade told me that she was ...

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On wednesday night last I took the drive out to Stillorgan co Dublin a pretty established suburb about 4 to 5 miles from the city centre.Driving through it busy centre could not help but notice the vacant shops which have ...

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