Brian collects photographs and has done so since for more than 30 years. He is having an exhibition of his photographs in City Hall from 30th October to 3rd November 2012. Admission is free. He is very keen to identify a man who used to take photographs on O’Connell Bridge. The Liveline listeners help in his search…
David called in to relate a story involving his infant son being photographed by a stranger using a phone in Stephen's Green in Dublin. David reported the matter to the Gardai , the man offered to delete the photos and the Gardai took a statement from him. There was nothing more done about it.
We recently came across a fantastic cat story, involving a photographer called Alex! Alex Hutchinson is 27, and a fashion photographer (a really good one at that!), and he and his girlfriend Lisa have two cats. They love cats! But they live in an apartment in Goatstown in Dublin and they found that the smell of the kitty litter tray where the cats go to the toilet wasn’t very nice. So Alex decided to investigate was there another way - could he wean the cats off their tray and off kitty litter? Alex wondered could he train his cats to ...
He has photographed some of the most famous people in the world in a career spanning six decades. Few other photographers in history have managed to capture such a range of icons from Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela, to Mohammed Ali, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Amy Winehouse. His photograph of Raquel Welch in a crucifixion scene back in 1970 was banned for thirty years and he famously managed to soften the image of Margaret Thatcher when he photographed her with a simple yellow rose in her hand. His photographs have adorned historic rock albums, movie posters and international magazine ...