Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her work in photojournalism, documentary, portraiture, and advertising. She addressed such social issues as homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution. Children were a reoccurring subject...
06.00 hours, Sahara Desert, August 1986, ten days short of my 40th birthday. I look a little grumpy, but I’d only had about three hours’ sleep on what would turn out to be a day of great significance, although I knew nothing of what was to come … the night...
Daniel Weiner (1919–1959) was an American photojournalist, best known for his empathetic and sometimes humourous photographs of New Yorkers, and of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950’s. He covered the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King,...
My Dad is largely to blame … he was a very cultured man, big into music, literature and movies. From when I was fourteen or so, he took me regularly to Dublin’s art-house cinema to see all the great movies of the time, by the likes of Bergman, Fellini, Visconti,...
In 2003 I went to live in Palermo, capital of Sicily. I became great friends with my neighbours, Giovanna and Francesco. Giovanna introduced me to her friend, a strikingly beautiful young woman named Paola. Paola and I hit it off at once. We met up again the next day...
