
I completed a street photography course and later became an administrator for the Street Photography Ireland group on FB. I exhibited some of my street photography work twice, in group exhibitions, in Dublin. (Sol Art Gallery, 2015 & Filmbase, 2016). I find Joel Meyerowitz and Gary Winongrand’s work fascinating especially from the 70s & 80s NY, as it revives all my early childhood memories.
After years of struggling creatively, I found that nothing else matches my personality better than street photography. It’s an ever-changing art of such immense importance, because it’s been recording life throughout the decades, giving us such an insight of what it was like, what people wore, how they interacted, and the many differences and similarities between then and now. It’s a very active type of photography, pure, raw and alive. There’s such a variety of styles to play with and choose, limitless approaches, subjects, backgrounds, angles, colours, mediums, and results. What keeps you going is the thrill and adrenaline, the joy of being at the right place at the right time, feeling invisible while being present. There’s room to keep evolving without the fear of reaching a dead end. And of course, there’s the power of freezing some truly great moments and keeping them safe, with the stories behind them. Moments that nobody else noticed but you, but you can present them exactly how you saw them. All this is exactly what I aim to reflect with my work.
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