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Abandoned House, Galway
Paddy's Day, 2012
Delivery
Night Road with New Year's Firework
Palestine, Galway, 2010
Road To The Twelve Pins, Galway
Istanbul, 2011
Ghost Estate, Wexford
Figure On A Steep Road, Malaga, 2011
Deansgrange, Dublin
Bonfire with Lightsaber
Watching The Gulf War, 1990
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I am a writer (of poetry mainly) and photographer. I also teach creative writing part-time. I first became aware of photography in the 1970s. Robert Frank was probably my first big influence, then Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Martin Parr's 'Bad Weather' and Fay Godwin's 'Land'. Koudelka was another revelation. In 1979, when I was working in a Dublin restaurant, someone lent me their SLR for the day. It was like an unblinkering, the opening of a third eye; I found that this was a language I already spoke with some fluency (having spent a year in Art School probably helped). I have been taking photographs ever since.
