Writing

Picturing Emigration

Picturing Emigration

Writer Darren Campion considers the pivotal role of photography in sustaining a sense of belonging to a particular place, family or community for emigrants from the perspective of the family album.

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Studio Photography

Studio Photography

Photography was the new wonder technology of its time, attracting entrepreneurs keen to cash in on public fascination…

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Pioneering Amateurs

Pioneering Amateurs

Early amateur photographers were primarily drawn from the Landed Gentry. They had the necessary time and resources…

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Colour Photography

Colour Photography

Irish physicist John Joly – famous for his development of radiotherapy – developed one of the first colour photographic processes…

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