I’m delighted to have a work in the current Rua Red Open exhibition 'Displacement and Belonging' - Home, which is on view between 24 February and 22 April 2023
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A guide to where some of my prints are currently available for purchase.
Read MoreA Week in Annaghmakerrig
A recent stay in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
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Death by Water
A commission from the T.S. Eliot Foundation
Read MoreCulture Night 2022
Two of my five photographs that will be exhibited on September 23rd as part of the Íova Group Culture Night exhibition in Studio Ex, 72 Francis Street, D.8. This year the theme is Countercultures, with a focus on subcultures and the experiences of minorities. #CultureNight2022
Asleep 4, Paris
Asleep 3, Paris
The Man with the Moving House
This is my portrait of musician Breanndán O' Beaglaoich, which was taken as part of a series of portraits of artists-in-residence at the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris. He’s featured in an upcoming RTE documentary 'The Man with the Moving House’, which documents Begley’s fifteen year battle with Kerry County Council to build a small traditional home in his ancestral village on the Dingle Peninsula. The film airs on Thursday, 25th August at 10.15pm on RTÉ ONE, and you can see more of my en résidence portraits here.
Three Exhibitions
It’s the last chance to see the three exhibitions in Dublin which are currently showing my work: the RHA Annual and Photo Ireland On Portraiture close this Sunday the 24th, and the SO Fine Art Editions show Still closes on July 30th. It’s been a good month.
Always a Good Idea
Two weeks in Paris.
Read MoreUlysses
My recording of a section of Ulysses for Shakespeare & Co, Paris.
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With artist Joy Gerrard and my portrait of her, on view in the 192nd Royal Hibernian Annual exhibition till July 24th. Photograph by Kate Horgan.
Six Shows
News about upcoming exhibitions featuring my work, and a major solo show in the Autumn.
Read MoreThe Campaigner
Tom Clonan is a very interesting character. He’s a former Army officer and whistleblower, who produced a damning report about the mistreatment of women in the Defence Forces.
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Behind-the-scenes photo by Ailbhe O'Donnell
The Ball Jar
He smiled and reached into his pocket, saying he had it in a small glass jar if I'd like to see it?
Read MoreJonathan
Jonathan Philbin Bowman ( 1969-2000) photographed for Harpers & Queen magazine, mid 90’s.
My friend Jonathan Philbin Bowman, journalist and broadcaster, who died on this day twenty-two years ago.
He was such great company - precocious, quick-witted, argumentative, hilarious and utterly original. I’ve never met anyone quite like him, and still miss him a lot.
You can hear his voice in this beautiful, moving tribute by Roger Doyle, who took an answering machine message Jonathan had left him and set it to music.
The portrait was made for a profile in Harpers & Queen magazine written by Sean O’Hagen, and you can see a print of it in the Little Museum of Dublin’s collection.
Fintan O’Toole, photographed at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in June 2019
We Don't Know Ourselves
Congratulations to Fintan O'Toole, who has just won the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2021 for his We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958.
Read MoreShane and Shannon
One thing that’s made the pandemic more bearable is the rise of so many great online comedians, and one of my favourites is Shane Daniel Byrne. I had fun photographing him in character as Shannon, of Shannon’s Hair Beauty Brows Nails & Dog Grooming on the Lower Kimmage Road. You can see some of Shannon’s greatest hits here, and Shane’s just announced a big show next March in Liberty Hall - tickets go on sale tomorrow.
Shane Daniel Byrne as Shannon of Shannon’s Hair Beauty Brows Nails & Dog Grooming on the Lower Kimmage Road
Work on Walls
Some of my work that’s been exhibited in the last year.
Read MoreMary Robinson
Two of my portraits of Mary Robinson, who became the first woman to be elected President of Ireland on this day in 1990.
Read MoreCulture Night 2021
I have two offerings for Culture Night this year : A large-scale, one-off print of this image is for sale in the ÍOVA 2nd Annual Photography Exhibition: 6pm Friday 17th Sept 39/40 Arran Quay, till Sunday the 19th September.
I am also delighted to have edited a specially commissioned short film for Decade of Centenaries 1921-2021, made by Susan Mannion, Matthew Gammon and Rory Pierce. You can see it here.
The film can also be viewed at 22 locations along the River Shannon in County Roscommon on Culture night by using a QR code. Information is on the Culture Night website for Roscommon.
Bulloch on Lennox and Synge
Good to see my Bulloch Harbour image up on the wall beside Red & Grey design on the corner of Lennox Street and Synge Lane, just in time for the next heatwave. It's part of a series, with a new image going up every week.
Atelier Horgan is open for business
I’ve just opened an atelier / daylight studio and am looking forward to doing lots of good work in it.
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