David O’Flynn
Dublin, Ireland
I live in North Dublin and I am married with two beautiful children. I missed the glorious age of film because I was a late starter in the world of photography and so I have always shot in digital. I have had a number of solo exhibitions, undertaken commissions (both for display and for publication) and this, my second book, is due to be published in September 2011.
My first book “Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles (2007)” was mainly a series of land and seascapes. Recently more and more of my work has featured ordinary people doing relatively ordinary things within the context of a given story. This wasn’t a deliberate or intentional decision on my part; I suppose it was part of my evolution as a photographer. I have always been a curious and observant people watcher, interested in the ordinary while looking for the unusual. Incorporating this into my photography was therefore a natural progression.
This work is a subjective observation of how a cross section of Irish society spends their leisure time (and in some cases how they spend their working time) and the longstanding place the horse has in Irish culture and traditions. Ultimately this work is about the richness in character and the strength of personality of the Irish people.
Books
2011 – “Horse – The Horse and Irish Society” (The History Press)
2007 – “Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles” (Nonsuch Publishing)
Exhibitions
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Skerries Mills
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Baldoyle
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Malahide
2006 – “Early works” – Malahide
Awards
2005 – RTE Weather (Winter) Competition
Review
“Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles” – Books Ireland (Feb 2008)
“…the consistently brilliant quality of the pictures lifts it streets beyond the norm. The author expresses a nice sense of humour and has the trick of pressing the button at exactly the right moment, but above all he uses form and light and shadow – chiaroscuro – in a way most colour photographers have forgotten or never known”
Dublin, Ireland
I live in North Dublin and I am married with two beautiful children. I missed the glorious age of film because I was a late starter in the world of photography and so I have always shot in digital. I have had a number of solo exhibitions, undertaken commissions (both for display and for publication) and this, my second book, is due to be published in September 2011.
My first book “Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles (2007)” was mainly a series of land and seascapes. Recently more and more of my work has featured ordinary people doing relatively ordinary things within the context of a given story. This wasn’t a deliberate or intentional decision on my part; I suppose it was part of my evolution as a photographer. I have always been a curious and observant people watcher, interested in the ordinary while looking for the unusual. Incorporating this into my photography was therefore a natural progression.
This work is a subjective observation of how a cross section of Irish society spends their leisure time (and in some cases how they spend their working time) and the longstanding place the horse has in Irish culture and traditions. Ultimately this work is about the richness in character and the strength of personality of the Irish people.
Books
2011 – “Horse – The Horse and Irish Society” (The History Press)
2007 – “Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles” (Nonsuch Publishing)
Exhibitions
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Skerries Mills
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Baldoyle
2008 – “Images of Fingal” – Malahide
2006 – “Early works” – Malahide
Awards
2005 – RTE Weather (Winter) Competition
Review
“Images of Fingal – Coast and Castles” – Books Ireland (Feb 2008)
“…the consistently brilliant quality of the pictures lifts it streets beyond the norm. The author expresses a nice sense of humour and has the trick of pressing the button at exactly the right moment, but above all he uses form and light and shadow – chiaroscuro – in a way most colour photographers have forgotten or never known”