I’ve had some prints made from the ‘We Are Loughborough’ series. These are Platinum prints made with a very old school print process by the guys at 139 Printroom. A platinum print uses platinum instead of the traditional silver. Best explained on their website:
“Platinum/ Palladium
Developed by William Willis in 1873, the Platinum Print is, for many, the epitome of photographic printing. Famed for it’s long tonal range and delicate warm colour, a Platinum/Palladium print possesses a luminosity not seen in more contemporary printing processes. ”

I’m editing a film I made with The Frames this year. This is a screen grab of Graham Hopkins the drummer playing on the For The Birds album playback at Vicar Street in Dublin on 30th March 2011. Wonderful lighting on the night by Darragh McAuliffe

With absolutely no prompting my two good Irish friends Aengus and Colin starting hurling large rocks into Galway bay for their sons. Colin was in Galway and Aengus in the Burren on the opposite shore of Galway bay. It’s like some old Irish legend!

I have been thinking about the photographer Bill Doyle a lot. Sadly he passed away last year but I didn’t discover this until recently when I stumbled accross a substantial part of his personal photography book collection in a shop in Ireland. Check out some of the books I have photographed here, its a who’s who of the greats.