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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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My Life in Pieces – 2024 Bio
They say biographies should be succinct and to the point. The best thing apparently, is to write the story of your life so that it feels like everything lead up to where you are right now. My life though has been a meander. I have and continue to bounce all over the map – from Read more
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Fanvid Berlin SCREENING IN DUBLIN
Over the past few months I’ve been attending the Dublin experimental film night Fanvid. The event, run Unit 44 / Kirkos, one of the last surviving independent art spaces in Dublin plays host to a diverse array of experimental films. Most eschew narrative, many are mixed media often created by fine art graduates or musicians. Read more
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Benediction (1993/2024)
Three or four years ago, my brother surprised me by having our families old mini-DV tapes scanned. In 1993 we got our hands on a camcorder, and a tiny bundle of tapes. Recorded over and over between 1993 and 1994 (when I broke the Sony’s motor manually creating stop motion) these tapes held a treasure Read more
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Parvana
I’ve been updating my IMDB and just realised I never posted about ‘Parvana’, a project I shot while living in Berlin for the Afghan director Abbas Mohammad Ayyoubi. Abbas is an incredible guy, who escaped single handed from US occupied Afghanistan, and made his way over a number of years and countless adventures to Berlin. Read more
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news Segment for Euronews
I shot and edited this segment for Euronews, featuring journalist Shona Murray, alongside Eamon Murphy and Dan Dalton. Featuring an interview with the new Taoiseach Simon Harris on Ireland’s historic acknowledgement of the state of Palestine. Read more
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Helios 44/2 58mm f2
Recently picked up a new lens from the lovely people at Retro Foto House. I’ve actually owned another copy of this lens, which somehow was lost or hidden in an attic during our many moves between Dublin and Berlin. It’s a classic Russian lens, declicked and cine-modded by Roman at Retro. And what a lens, Read more
Gareth Stack 