New Cover on this months Construct Ireland. I shot it in the Eco Village, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary.
This island is a few hundred metres from the Galway coast. The Spring Tide reveals a causeway allowing you to walk out to it. This event occurs once a year, local's walk out to view the old village ruins-the last permanent inhabitant left in the 70's.
14th September 2003 Jennie Ricketts Picture Editor from Observer Magazine called me. "We need a picture of Gerry Adams, do you want it?" so I drove 220 miles the following day from Galway to Belfast. I had a 20 minute slot with the man, so I took my Hasselblad, Nikon F4 with a ring flash & Fuji S1 digital. Mr Adams talked about football, the price of a pint & asked "How a man with a Birmingham accent" had come up from Galway to take his portrait. At the end I asked if anyone else had shot him today at which point the room collapsed into laughter. Three weeks later Mr Adam's room was found to have been "bugged" by Special Branch, strange to think our photo session is recorded & held on file in Whitehall.
This plate given to me a few years back shows the interior of Science Laboratories at University of Birmingham. The labs were in the city centre at the Edmund Street Annexe. Its a Quarter Plate size negative on glass, probably shot in the 1920's.
I came across these glass Lantern Slides in a box at home. They show Westminister Abbey, London Bridge, The Great Fire of London Memorial, Crystal Palace & St Pauls across the river. Theres not an Automobile in sight so these may have been taken about 1900 or earlier perhaps. Pete James (Bham Central Library, Photographs) has informed me these may be the work of George Washington Wilson http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/gww/index.htm link to info.
