A bumper album of different kinds of families, for the season that’s in it.
There are more photographs of friends and family here.
I also do private commissions, if interested please feel free to get in touch.
Lian and Grandad at the Glucksman
Lian in the Glucksman yesterday, photographed by her proud father.
Congratulations to my sister Lian, who has some of her work in The Glucksman gallery in Cork as part of their current group exhibition, “The Parted Veil”. It's made up of photographs she took of our grandparents' belongings in 2002, along with text from interviews with some of the family at the same time, and is up till the 28th of June.
A couple of years ago I was asked to contribute two portraits for the cover of the Hothouse Flowers album “People”. The first person I photographed for it was my grandfather.
Tim O’Driscoll, from the Leaders gallery
And the other person I photographed was Lian.
Lian Bell, also in the Leaders gallery
Me and the Da
John Horgan
I had a quick dive into the archives when I was back in Dublin, and came across this portrait I made of my father to accompany an interview in Cara magazine about one of his books. It’s one of my favourite pictures of him, along with this one:
Me and the Da
You can see other portraits of friends and family in this gallery.
The Ma and MacWeeney
Alen MacWeeney was my mother’s first boyfriend, but the relationship didn’t last after he moved to New York to become Richard Avedon’s assistant. He went on to have a stellar career as a photographer there, often coming back to Ireland to shoot a long-term project on the travelling community. I bought one of his prints of two traveller kids with the proceeds from the first script I ever sold, and it’s up in pride of place on the living room wall.
Alen MacWeeney photographed in Dublin, April 2019.
My mother Sara, aged 18, photographed by Alen. He added the image of himself looking at her and sent it from New York.
It was great to catch up with him when I was back in Dublin last week. He told me about the new biography of Avedon, saying “it reads like a thriller”. I’m halfway through its 700 pages, and he’s not wrong.
You can see some of my other pictures of artists in this gallery.