Shadowing a newspaper photographer as he completes his latest assignment for The Kerryman.
The Kerryman is one of the highest selling regional newspapers. Geri Lalor spends the day with the newspaper photographer Kevin Coleman.
The Kerryman has a tradition of using a lot of images throughout the paper. The assignment for the day is to photograph St John of Gods for a feature article in the newspaper.
Kevin Coleman will be required to deliver around a dozen photographs. He learned about photography and processing images from a Killarney farmer and neighbour. He describes himself as a home bird and believes that Kerry has a lot to offer visually. Working for The Kerryman he has also photographed international visitors to Ireland such as General Charles de Gaulle, Jackie Onassis, and Pope John Paul II.
At St John of Gods, he photographs Elizabeth at work. On returning to the darkroom, he describes the process of developing the film. The photographs are then selected, and a layout is decided on before being sent to production and prepared for printing.
Printers paste up the text and the photographs into a page and eventually that is plated and printed.
Kevin Coleman began taking photographs for The Kerryman in May 1965 and all his negatives since that time are filed away for future reference.
This episode of 'Jo-Maxi' was broadcast on 23 March 1989. The reporter is Geri Lalor.
