Standing Alone Exhibition

Hey guys, I have an exhibition opening on the 12th Sept, I hope you can all make it (directions on invite) if not pop in before the end of Sept.

Press release - paul kelly gallery @ the CHQ , IFSC Building Dublin 1.

The Paul Kelly Gallery at CHQ opened on August 8th to great success with Paul's own show 'Dog Days' featuring the photographers own work from the past few years from eight different countries.

On Friday September 12th the Paul Kelly Gallery opens its doors to the group show 'Standing Alone.' A show of 13 photographers working in Ireland.This show will feature a variety of work from disciplines as diverse as fashion,fetish,landscape and wildlife.Leading fashion photographer, Agata Stoinska  from Poland and our own Mella Travers and Emily Quinn are among the exhibitors.Hector Heathwood lends his inimitable sensual style with some cutting edge  and world recognised fetish work. Advertising photographers hu O Reilly, Fionn Mccann and Gerry Morgan illustrate that there is more to a photographer in this field than producing reflection-free images on a wine bottle.

New work  will also show by Johnny Savage,Kris McGuirk,Richard Stokes,Lucia de Nile, Clare - Frances Cassells, Steve Ryan and Paul Kelly

This show runs until September 30th and is open 7 days a week from 10am until 7pm Monday -Friday and 12 until 6 on Saturdays and Sundays.

Morocco 2008

Hi guys, Im back from my two week holiday in Morocco. Had such a good time, I love this country second time there. I've posted up a few shots which I took over there.

I love these two shots of this little girl. This was taken with my wide angle lens. Thats why the sky looks so wide and surreal in the first shoot. She a princess, have to send over the photo to the girl hence the phone number in the sand,we couldn't find a pen anywhere! Good idea tough!

This butcher man gave me a lesson on meat. He explained every part of meat that was hanging infront of him, to the right is cows stomach to the left is cows tongue. Nice!

Weddings

Hi guys, feel free to email me for a list of packages.

Baby Grace

Here's a shot of Grace playing with her favourite cat in her back garden. Book is sent for printing. The complete book will be up soon.

Ok, here's a continuation of this baby book project I'm creating. I love the emotion in these shots, capture the true side of a baby. This is one of the double page spreads in the book. 

Here's a sneak preview of a job I'm doing for a client of mine. I'm compiling a series of different images of a 14 month old baby, her name is Grace isn't she a Beauty.. The middle of the book will be in black and white and the rest will be in colour. She was a delight to work with. I laid her on a bed against a large window letting in beautiful light, I captured a range of different expressions, some very funny one's. When it's fully complete I let you see how it turned out..It's a nice keepsake to have of your child I think.

This is the front cover of the  book.

DIT Catalogue

I photographed all the Art students from DIT for this catalogue. I used my fab 700-200mm lens along with two studio lights with umbrellas. The idea was to capture the personality of each student while holding up their art work.

The catalogue is divided into five sections fine art, product design, design display, visual communications (my course) and interior & furniture design. Each course has a different coloured cover which are reversible.
Here is a list of the 33 people in my class.

One example of a double spread Mary Reynolds on left and myself on the right.

DIT_MyGraduateExhibition

My graduate exhibition was held in CHQ. It's an excellent venue for our specially designed 3D displays, which was different from previous years. The official opening was on Tue 10th June and on Thur 12th was for the members of Design Industry to attend by invite only. Adrain Shaugnessy was our guest speaker for the night.  Following the exhibit the guests moved onto the Jeanie Johnston boat where they were served champagne and light refreshments. it was a great opportunity for us the students to talk to designers and photographers,(pic below of a few of the guests). Overall, I was delighted with the night and everyone's displays looked great. The exhibition is open from 10th till the 14th June . For more info on the students check out www.lastandfirst.ie ( I am also proud to say I photographed all the Art students from DIT for the end of the year catalogue, which I will post up after this. Check out my display below.

On the back of each students display unit there is a photograph of themselves. Each student, is doing something different. I'm looking down at Owen who said something cheeky to me. At night the displays  were lined up against the window (as you can see above) so you can see each student. Great idea...
Here we have a couple of friends of mine (photographers) happy out on the boat. Richard Gilligan was there too, was my first time to meet him in person that night, Talented guy along with the rest of the gang. Looks like there enjoying themselves...check them out below
nice shot of the gang here. Keith Walshe on left then Johnny Savage, Paul Kelly and Lucia De Nile.....thanks for attending guys..



This is my display unit. On the right-hand side I displayed images from my dog book. See me on the back.

On the front I had some portraiture, and one enlarged shot of an image from my dog book.
On the left-hand side of the display were abstracts from a website I designed for Digital Media called How do you Feel? It was an online counseling website for people to blog their emotions. I'll post the details up later about that project.

Landscapes