Lighthouses

I've been photographing Irish lighthouses for over twenty years now, and I'm slightly obsessed with them. There's a practical reason they're difficult subjects. Most sit on remote rocks, exposed headlands, or islands that are hard to reach and harder to land on. I've shot them from helicopters, from small boats in heavy swell, and from clifftops where the only company was gannets and rain. The Fastnet lighthouse off the Cork coast has become one of my most recognized images, but every lighthouse here has its own character and story. From Slyne Head in Galway to Eagle Island in Mayo, from Hook Head in Wexford to Tory Island off Donegal, each one demanded patience and persistence to photograph well.

This collection brings together over fifty fine art prints spanning the full reach of the Irish coast. You'll find Wild Atlantic Way lighthouses like Skellig Michael and Sheep's Head alongside Bull Rock, St John's Point, Old Head of Kinsale, and the little lighthouse at Fenit in the county of Kerry. Many were shot in dramatic weather. Some in rare calm. All of them in conditions I had to wait for, sometimes across multiple trips and seasons.

The same care goes into the printing. Each one is checked before it leaves the studio, and you can choose from framed, unframed, canvas, or acrylic.