My second assignment for Life magazine. A feature called "How We Met". I had to photograph 6 couples, some of them where they met and some in various other locations. I photographed Gay and Kathleen Byrne in The Radisson Hotel. ...

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Got a call from Roisin in Hot Press, could I shoot Brian O'Driscoll in their offices at 2pm today? She was heading out to buy a rugby ball for him to sign and them to use in a competition. So ...

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Really enjoyed this cover shoot for VIP Magazine. We shot it in the presidential suite of The Westin Hotel in Dublin. Lorraine is great fun to work with and very down to earth. Her 2 sisters are a Hair and ...

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Jennifer Maguire was on The Apprentice with Alan Sugar a couple of years ago and has now re-invented herself as a TV presenter. She told some great stories about her time on The Apprentice, most of them unrepeatable, but as ...

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Photographed the beautiful Sharon Corr of The Corrs for the latest Hot Press cover in my studio. We had such a laugh together. I was flirting like mad with her to get her to open up and give me a ...

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Only 2 weeks ago I mentioned that I had 2 magazine covers on the newstands at the same time and said I'd have to go for the hat trick! Little did I know that I'd skip 3 and go straight ...

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I was really chuffed when VIP magazine rang to say Glenda Gilson, was being featured in the next issue, had requested that I be the photographer for the shoot. I get on really well with Glenda, she’s a real pro. ...

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A wedding with a difference! We had such a laugh doing this new Hot Press cover shoot. MayKay and Pockets from Fight Like Apes or FLApes as they are known, were game for anything. The scary thing was, the dress ...

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Just finished a very quick fashion shoot with Caprice for Hot Press.We only had about an hour of shooting time and we still managed to shoot 6 different outfits in 6 different locations! How did we do it?Well, we shot ...

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Friday afternoon last week Hot Press rings, "Mark can you do a shoot with Cathy Davey tomorrow afternoon?" "We need the images tomorrow afternoon too, as we're going to press". "Oh, and she wants to do the shoot with a ...

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The latest fashion shoot for Hot Press. The theme was "nude" clothing. Really great team this time. The stylist Karl Smith did a brilliant job, all the ladies especially loved the shoes! Lorraine Browne did the hair beautifully and Naomh ...

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When Hot Press called and said Christy Moore was coming to my studio for a cover shoot, I nearly fell off my chair! Usually I meet them somewhere else and have little time to check locations etc, it also means ...

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The second of my fashion shoots for Hot Press. This time I wanted some flesh, to be more specific, I wanted a breast in at least one shot. As usual, it was all a bit last minute, I contacted some ...

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Got the call from Hot Press to go into Today FM and shoot Ray D'Arcy for what was supposed to be The Hot Press Interview, not the cover. (Which is less pressure and a shorter shoot). ...

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Flew to Glasgow yesterday to shoot Paolo Nutini for Hot Press magazine. Originally it was supposed to be Milan, but was changed to Glasgow at the last minute. Got in early and did a bit of sight seeing. Went to ...

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