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  • I have always been drawn to the form, shape and geometry of buildings, landscape and people. The exploration of these elements within the frame and the necessary subtraction, addition or alterations have always been the magic of photography for me.
    Composed with either natural or artificial light, the approach could be described as slow documentary.

    Over the last number of years I have become increasingly interested in the impact man leaves on the environment be it unintentional or otherwise. Having photographed quarries, landscapes, industrial spaces and the people who inhabit them, I feel honored to have seen behind the curtain of an otherwise veiled world.

    Born in Dublin I left a career in Archaeology to begin a new life as a photographer. An early love of the Sunday Papers magazines with stories from around the world captured my imagination. After courses in the Gallery of Photography I landed an assisting job with one of Ireland’s leading Photographers. Since then my work has taken me to many places around the world and I have been awarded Arts Council Grants for personal projects, multiple Bursary awards, and have been shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait prize on a few occasions. My work has been purchased by The National Gallery of Ireland and other Public Institutions. I live in Dublin with my wife, two children and a dog called Henry.

  • Architectural Review, Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, Amag, Forbes Africa, Ballymore, Savills, Hines, Image Interiors, The Sunday Times, Cara Magazine, Offaly County Council, The Irish Heart Foundation, Expressway, Lidl, Epilepsy Ireland, NUI Galway, Fáilte Ireland, Aer Lingus, Virgin Media, Vhi, Fitzwilliam Hotel
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  • Stingo, The Copper House Gallery, 2018.

    General Practice, Trinity Biomedical Science Institute, 2015.
    General Practice, Tallaght Hospital, 2015.

    District 9, University College Cork, 2013.

    General Practice, The Hunt Museum, 2013.

    General Practice, The Gallery of Photography, 2013.

    Analogue, The National Print Museum, 2011.

    28, St. Michael’s & John, 2008.
 


  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 2024.
    Artform Annual 44 Art Exhibition, 2021.
    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2021.
    ÍOVA Show, 2021.
    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2020.
    National Gallery of Ireland, Zurich Portrait Prize, 2019.
    
Royal Hibernian Academy, 2019.

    PhotoIreland 2019, “Capture”, SO, Fine Atrs Editions, 2019.

    Station House Gallery, “Contemporary Irish Photography”, 2019.

    SO, Fine Arts Editions, 2018.

    “Crossing Lines”, Highlands Gallery, 2018.

    National Gallery of Ireland, Zurich Portrait Prize, 2018.

    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2018.

    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2017.

    “The Look of The Irish”, Glebe House & Gallery, 2016.

    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2016.

    “Fragments”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2015.

    “Convergence”, Oliver Cornet Gallery, 2012.
    
Royal Hibernian Academy, 2012.

    Royal Hibernian Academy, 2011.

    Photo Month, Krakow, Poland, 2011.



  • The Arts Council - Visual Arts Bursary Award, 2022.
    The Arts Council - Visual Arts Bursary Award, 2020.

    The Office of Public Works, 2019.
    The National Gallery of Ireland, 2019.
    
Irish College of General Practitioners, 2017.

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2015.

    Trinity College Dublin, Collections 2015.


    District 9 of Chianti, 2012 - ISBN 978 88 7576 245 2