Looking forward to this group show which opens at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin on Thursday 12th March. 

Another spread form the new issue of D magazine.

New D magazine story just published

Many congratulations to Pawel Pawlikowski on winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Film - for Ida -  in what was certainly one of the most interesting categories this year.

Just been looking through my Auntie Brigid's book 'The Women We Wanted To Look Like' which was published in 1977 and which she gave me for Xmas that year! Great pictures by Bailey, Beaton, Barry Lategan, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Parkinson, Peccinotti and many others. And beautifully written. It needs to be updated!

I've been looking through some old pictures and found this series of Courtney's Circus which I made in Connemara back in the early 1990s. I bumped into the Circus Strongman in my local shop. He was looking for a place to swim. I started following the circus and made a series of polaroids. You can see more of these here

Oh no, I hope these girls aren't getting sick again!

I've just been given a tour of Russborough House in Co. Wicklow which is owned by the Beit Foundation. Sir Alfred Beit was enormously wealthy (a fortune - and a major collection of paintings - inherited from his father) and bought Russborough in the early 1950s. He was an enthusiastic photographer and in his twenties and thirties made many 3D photographs - in both colour and black and white - which are amazing. This picture shows one of his early 3D cameras. Well worth visiting Russborough to see these pictures: http://www.russboroughhouse.ie

These girls love Spot!

Very much enjoying David Dawson's book of photographs about Lucian Freud: A Painter's Progress. Dawson worked as assistant and confidante to Freud for almost twenty years and recorded daily life in and around the studio. Freud had an extraordinary collection of art and in this picture we see a Bacon, an Auerbach and a Rodin!