Working portfolio · 2000 — 2026

The west of Ireland,
seen for a long time.

Twenty-five years of pictures from the working coast: pilgrimage, sport, recovery, weather, festival, food, architecture, and the long-running story of a place and its people.

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Statement

The picture editor's number, and a quarter century of weather.

There are photographers who chase the news, and there are photographers who live on the road the news happens on. The second kind have a different archive. They were already there when the helicopter went down off Blacksod, when the pilgrims came up the mountain in the rain, when the man with the flag stood on the terrace and would not sit down until the final whistle.

This portfolio is a working selection from that archive. It carries on under commission and out of habit. The light here keeps changing. So does the work.

— Westport, Co. Mayo

Recognition
Selected, of many
2022
Bronze Camera, Landscape
FEP · Federation of European Professional Photographers
2022
Photographer of the Year, four categories
IPPVA · Commercial · Press · Landscape · Open Creative
2016
Bronze Camera, Landscape
FEP · Federation of European Professional Photographers
2015
Photographer of the Year
IPPVA · Irish Professional Photographers & Videographers
First Place, Portrait
AIB Press Photographers of Ireland
Black & White Spider Awards
First Place, monochrome category
Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Selected for award
MonoAwards
Honoured, monochrome
01 · Press & Editorial

Press & Editorial

Filed first to the wire, kept here because the work outlasts the news cycle. Pilgrimage, sport, recovery, weather, festival.

Rescue 116, Blacksod
Rescue 116, Blacksod
Reek Sunday, Croagh Patrick Above the cloud line, Croagh Patrick Papal Visit, Knock President Michael D. Higgins Enda Kenny, Taoiseach in waiting A Mayo fan, GAA Westport Kite Festival Children's Day, Westport Achill Henge Maser, mural in Westport Gesalla beach horse races Michael Ring TD, canvassing The Cross of Cong, conserved
02 · Public Relations

Public Relations

Campaigns, launches, civic moments. The picture that does the work the press release cannot.

Dermot Bannon, Tidy Towns
Dermot Bannon, Tidy Towns
Mayo Day Connacht Distillery The Ice House seaweed baths
03 · People

People

Environmental portraits and editorial sittings. Faces of the West, twenty-five years on.

Post-election, Enda Kenny at home
Post-election, Enda Kenny at home
Andy Moran, Mayo GAA Lee Keegan, Mayo GAA Kieran Lally, Mayo Man on Everest Colin Stafford-Johnson, cinematographer Stephen Rochford Joe Hogan, basketmaker
04 · Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

For hotels, distilleries, restaurants, and the slow makers of the western coast.

Connemara Whiskey
Connemara Whiskey
Kilbeggan Whiskey Smoked salmon, west of Ireland Hotel Westport, Bar Awards
05 · Interior & Exterior

Interior & Exterior

Architecture and place. Rooms with their own light, and buildings against weather.

Westport House, barrel ceiling
Westport House, barrel ceiling
Notre-Dame, Kylemore Abbey Toby's Bar, Westport Wyatt Hotel, Westport Achill Henge, street art
06 · Product

Product

Studio work for brands that know the difference a frame makes.

Connacht Whiskey, studio
Connacht Whiskey, studio
Hewn Spoons, hand-carved Celtic Roots, makers
The studio

For commissions, prints, and the picture desk.

Westport, Co. Mayo. Twenty-five years on the western seaboard. Press, editorial, commercial, fine art. Aerial work and short film on request.

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