Crispin Rodwell

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Samantha Power: to lead presentation of the overall ‘Press Photographer of the Year’ award. Photograph: Stephen Kelleghan
Photographic record of Covid-dominated year to be prepared by press photographers

A historic visual record of the past Covid-19-dominated year in Ireland is being prepared by press photographers and offered to the State. Members of(...)

Frances Foley (92) exercising close to her home in Oscar Square in the Tenters, Dublin city. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell
Resolute and resilient: ‘I’m not ready to go yet. I’ve still life to live’

Frances Foley begins every morning with stretches, going up on her toes, and back down again to loosen her muscles before going downstairs. She does t(...)

Photograph by Trevor Dickson: The police station on Lisburn Road was bombed on December 16th 1986. I noticed the houses across the road had been badly damaged and spotted a mirror on the lawn of one of them. It amazed me that it hadn’t been damaged and an idea came into my head right away. I propped the mirror against what was left of their garden pillar. I always tried to make something a little bit different, rather than the usual point and shoot
Photographing the Troubles: ‘like being a war correspondent in your home town’

There was no boasting at the launch of a new book about photographing the Troubles, Shooting the Darkness, just an ineffable sadness about the horror (...)