Photo Museum Ireland is currently hosting The Light of Day, the first major retrospective exhibition of work by Irish photographer Tony O'Shea - enjoy a gallery of images above.
A legendary figure in documentary photography, O’Shea is regarded as one of Ireland’s most important contemporary photographic artists.
The Light of Day presents more than 100 images drawn from the span of O'Shea’s career. The exhibition highlights the photographer’s empathetic, poetic approach associated with the European humanist tradition and explores how this is combined with an anthropologist’s eye for social realities – and at times a Beckettian sense of the absurd.
The exhibition features a selection from O'Shea's extensive practice, which has been digitally archived by Photo Museum Ireland over the past 3 years.
O'Shea’s most enduring interest is in the myriad of small ways in which history is actually lived, as something that happens between people, at home, on the street, wherever they happen to be.
Tony O'Shea - The Light of Day, Photo Museum Ireland until 18th February 2023 - find out more here.
