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Shooting the Darkness

"A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else"

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

Top Cast

  • Alan Lewis

    Alan Lewis

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Hugh Russell

    Hugh Russell

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Paul Faith

    Paul Faith

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Crispin Rodwell

    Crispin Rodwell

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Trevor Dickson

    Trevor Dickson

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Stanley Matchett

    Stanley Matchett

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Martin Nangle

    Martin Nangle

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Tom Lawlor

    Tom Lawlor

    Self - Press Photographer

  • Frankie Quinn

    Frankie Quinn

    Self - Press Photographer

Overview

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

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