It’s something that comes up almost every year: the threat of local arts festivals losing their vital funding. This year is clearly no different from any other. Many small organisations who receive a percentage of their funding through the DSD Laganside Events Grant have had this cut, and the result will have a knock-on effect [...]

This Friday begins the new multi media arts festival by Belfast-based music collective, Ordinary Days and The Black Box; Oscillations. The inaugural 2008 festival begins on Friday 3rd October at The Black Box and will run until Sunday 12th October. The festival aims to showcase the leading edge of independent music, film, contemporary art, graphic [...]

Show me things I don’t or won’t understand, things that will be strange to me. Beautiful things that make me want to be better and horrible things that that I can’t watch, things that make me want to be worse than I already am. Show me your thoughts and my own, and show me your [...]

This Thursday I have a very special photographic exhibition to mark the opening of Belfast City Office. This is an office space centre on Elmwood Avenue, close to Queens University and the Students Union. Merging premium serviced-office space, top-notch in-house IT support from Xootec, administrative & business support and very smart facilities for meeting, greeting [...]

Recently I’ve been working with local promotion company Moving On Music, who specialise in classical, traditional, world, rock and jazz music. MOM are putting on a mini-festival in the Black Box from today, 26th March, to Sunday 30th March, encompassing many great musicians, as well as film screenings before each show. In the Café, however, [...]

So. It’s here. Christmas. You may be reading this on Christmas day. What are you doing on the Internet on Christmas day? Family sucks? Guess its the problem a lot of people have. Understandable. Boxing day? Again, why aren’t you opening all those boxes? Not believe in Christmas? Again, Family suck? It’s okay, I understand. [...]

Yesterday was the official launch of the ‘Out To Lunch‘ festival – a mini festival as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – which runs in January 2008. What better time then to announce that I will be exhibiting a small selection of my work with local bands and musicians throughout the festival which [...]

While at the launch of the first solo exhibition of the excellent local artist Alice McCullough at the Safehouse Gallery on Monday 26th November I was asked whether I consider myself an ‘artist’. This got me thinking… According to the Dictionary.com: pho·tog·ra·phy – n. 1. The art or process of producing images of objects on [...]

Sorry if you’re just here for the wild sex, as promised yesterday. Just one more day to wait. I am in no way sick of my photos of the US and trying to relive in my mind the experiences and get them down on paper (virtual paper). Though it has meant that I have slightly [...]

What a relaxing weekend. Much of my time was spent at the parents house, chillin’ When there is a purpose for taking photographs it always makes it so much easier. Especially when my purpose is to show to people who have [probably] never been to Ireland. I try to think like this most of the [...]