RTE News...

oh yeah...
meant to post this a few weeks back but better late than never. i was on the 6 o clock news. you can see it here but you need to download real player. huge thanks to philip bromwell from rte who filmed/edited it: a sound fellow if i ever met one!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1103/6news_av.html?2641722,null,230

BARE BONES (london show)

hi there, im in a show in london next week on thursday the 3rd of december as part of the bare bones magazine/collective/gallery/launch/thingy which looks to be an amazing mixed show featuring the talents of niall o'brien (http://niallobrien.co.uk/) and harry malt (http://harrymalt.com/) among others...

more info can be found here: http://neugalleries.com/exhibitions/bare-bones-issue-2/ and here: http://www.quarterlybarebones.blogspot.com/

Time/Line...

click on this link to view short film by the mild mannered sound fella they call nob about the exhibition...

TIME/LINE Exhibition....

‘Time/line’ is an exhibition of documentary photographs about skateboarding in Ireland by Richard Gilligan. Through a mixture of portraiture, action and small everyday moments ‘Time/line’ gives an insight into life as skateboarder in Ireland from the inside out. Shot over the past 14 years, this show is a visual journey of one photographers view of life both on and off his board.

On the opening night there will also be a book launch of a limited edition publication to go with the show.
For €12 own a piece of Irish skate history (only 200 printed).

The exhibition will open Tuesday 3rd of November at PLANE/SITE Gallery on Lad Lane, Dublin 2 at 7pm.
Come along and bring your board if you are over 18 to shred shaggy's new mini-ramp in the gallery space.

TUESDAY 3RD-8TH NOVEMBER
@ PLANE/SITE GALLERY (Laneway across the road from the baggot gap)
LAD LANE DUBLIN 2
ADMISSION: FREE

For more information and directions visit www.richgilligan.com & www.mox.ie

The Irish Times did a cool feature on the show you can check out here also:


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1017/1224256484832.html

FREEFALL...

Here is a poster I shot currently up all over the Dublin town for the corn exchange theatre company. It's an amazing play now on in project....

http://www.cornexchange.ie

Big up and Grind....

sound fellows and talented basta's "Conor & David" have a fresh new website...
you can check it here: http://conoranddavid.com/

in other hot news jay dords sent this photo of me grinding greystones skatepark a few weekends ago and the other night i watched shane meadows latest film the other day called "somers town" and it's magic.

King of the travellers / Bambi / Pecha Kucha

so since i last put some news up here lots has been happening but here are the 3 stand outs for me as of late. i went to dundalk to photograph the ex bare-knuckle king of the travelers, a lovely fella by the name of dan rooney for an article still very much in the works but with the potential to be a cracker. i was brought along by my old mongrel pal and mayo-man of the year, eoin butler. more details of that day available here: http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/i-went-out-walking/

i also decided i am doing an exhibition in early november consisting of over 14 years of my photography about skateboarding in ireland and whilst up in my folks attic digging out old negs i found this bambi 7 inch. bambi were an amazing dublin punk band who would play in the old pipeline 2 skatepark during parties there. i was only a young gun at the time but i can still remember skating around the park to only the light from a strobe light as they played a sex pistols cover in the hole in the wall.

also ive been asked to present a pecha kucha thing in the sugar club soon also. its this thing where you have 20 seconds to talk about 20 slides so basically its just over 6 and a half minutes of sheer panic and randomness... come along if you are free. they are always really insightful and inspiring.

The Handy Man

this photo was taken around this time last year during a hot, amazing week in new york. it was shot in coney island minutes before eating one of the worst hot dogs of my life. this family were shooting the air rifle game when i asked them if i could take their photograph. the dad, miguel handed me his card afterwards and i promised him i would post a print which i still have yet to do but i ordered the print for them today so it should end up with them soon enough hopefully...