Twins: Puck Fair, Co KerryPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Cahirmee FairPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Ballinasloe FairPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Tallow FairPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Ballinasloe FairPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Smithfield FairPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
"Fairs are more than places of trade in Ireland. Women regard them as occasions worth dressing up for...a femininity to counter weigh the spit-in-the-hand dealings of the men folk. Many of these are traveling people, part of an ancient tribe of Gaelic nomads who have never remained in one spot for very long despite numerous integration attempts by settled society. ...there's business to be done. On days like these horses and ponies are their stocks and shares; the towns and squares of Ireland morph into their trading floors...these old meeting grounds are flourishing arenas of openness and transparency."
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
My father with his granddaughter Caoimhe, Corofinfrom the series Life After Death
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
Aoife and Daniel Communion, Mother Teresa and myself, Corofinfrom the series Life After Death
Photograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
from the series Life After DeathPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
My father asleep, Corofin from the series Life After DeathPhotograph (c) Kenneth O'Halloran /All Rights Reserved
"We would often come home from school to see who had died that day."
"My father, who is 80, having spent half his life working, recently retired, closing his drapery store. His undertaker's business continues. For me and others in the family it meant that death was never far away or overtly mysterious. We became accustomed to the dead of our parish being prepared for the final ceremonies before burial."
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Kenneth O Halloran was born in the West of Ireland, and is a graduate of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire. Based in Dublin, he is currently working on a number of long term projects, which include a personal portrayal of his family shot over 5 years.
His project 'Tales from the Promised Land' has been shortlisted for the Terry O'Neill Award 2010 and his portrait, Twins: Puck Fair, is being shown until Feb 20 in The National Portrait Gallery in London, as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2010.
His project 'Tales from the Promised Land' has been shortlisted for the Terry O'Neill Award 2010 and his portrait, Twins: Puck Fair, is being shown until Feb 20 in The National Portrait Gallery in London, as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2010.
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