Photographer based in Wexford
Padraig Grant is a photographer born in Wexford in 1967 and he still li ves and works in County Wexford. Grant’s photographs are concerned with people’s tenuous relationship to their place and time.
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Watercarriers, Western Darfur, Sudan by Padraig Grant
From Rosslare by Padraig Grant
Wexford Town Evening by Padraig Grant
Wexford New Quayside by Padraig Grant
Dinka Celebration Dance, Western Darfur, Sudan by Padraig Grant
Looking Towards by Padraig Grant
Nomad Possessions by Padraig Grant
Near Garage Ethiopa by Padraig Grant
Baidoa Somalia by Padraig Grant
Bahr-al-ghazal by Padraig Grant
Bole Orphanage by Padraig Grant
Ethiopian Highlands by Padraig Grant
The Journey is all that Matters
“I started my career as a freelance photo-journalist in 1987. I spent the next ten years working for all the major Irish and international newspapers and magazines including the New Yok Times and The Sunday Times (UK) and Irish Times and Sunday Tribune (Ireland). Following the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 I began to withdraw from reportage and began to concentrate on my first love; using photographic images as my means of artistic expression. There are two major strings to my bow. The first is my desire to hunt for images in every part of this wonderful world. The second is to apply this world view and experience to making images of my home place……The journey is all that matters“. – Padraig Grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- ‘Augnablik in Afriku’ Images from Africa, Art Iceland, Reykjavik 2009
- ‘With This, or Upon This’, Images from Wexford 1987-2007, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford 2007
- ‘Moving’ Images from South East Asia, The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahealy Co. Wicklow 2004
- ‘Iran’, Wexford Arts Centre, 2003
- ‘Fifty from the Fiftieth’ Images from Wexford Festival Opera, Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin and Wexford Arts Centre 2002
- Wexford Arts Centre, 2001
- ‘Mexico, The Disappeared’, Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim 2001
- ‘Rwanda’, Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, 1994
- ‘Time Runs Out’ Images from Sudan Gallery of Photography Dublin 1990
- ‘Somalia’, Gallery of Photography Dublin 1992
Selected Books
- ‘African Shadows’ with a foreword by Billy Roche 1994, House of Munn ISBN 1 899676 00 7
- ‘A Remarkable Festival’ with a foreword by Colm Toibín 2001, Wexford Festival Opera ISBN
- ‘With This, or Upon This’ Words by Tom Mooney, Pictures by Pádraig Grant 2007, Milestone L. Press ISBN 978-0-9534141-1-6
- ‘The Beach, Day’ with a foreword by Tom Mooney 2010 A3 landscape format, hard back. Hand bound by the photographer as a limited edition portfolio of 100 copies
Contact Information
Website: http://padraig1967.wix.com/events
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/padraig.grant/photos_albums