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Photo Gallery – West Belfast 1987 – 2003. Capture the present so those in the future can look back at the past…

Soapbox on May 29, 2015, 12:12 pm

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The adage goes a picture is worth a thousand words and if that is true then I am looking over at at a cardboard box that contains an unseen, unwritten and unpublished 6 million word photographic document relating to life in West Belfast between 1987 – 2003. My name is Sean Allen and I’m a holistic therapist and I currently live in Waterford Ireland. Prior to this in 2003 I was a professional photographer in Belfast, covering Press, Advertising, PR, …

Is #Stormont effectively ‘nationalising’ its own images?

Mick Fealty on June 8, 2012, 10:44 am

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When I was working as a sort of blogging pacemaker at the Daily Telegraph, it used to slightly irk me that the papers subs would always choose the photos. Invariably, if it was a piece that featured Gordon Brown the photo would alway capture some deeply unattractive aspect of his physog. But the point was, I suppose, that it was the paper that owned the means to refract the image of the government as opposed to the government itself. Likewise …