"SIGNIFICANT NEW PORTRAIT AWARD"

(As Quoted by the latest edition of Irish Arts Review)

2008 WINNER PATRICK DONALD

         Patrick is proud to announce that at the 178th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition where all art forms are submitted, that he was awarded The Inaugral Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and Irish Arts Review Photographic Portrait Prize, for the image above taken in Cuba when he was there in January this year. The image also features on the front cover of the Irish Arts Review in the current Winter issue, and features prominantly in the article on how photography is now begining to prove its self as an artform in Ireland.

"In classic documentary style, a girl and a boy set astride their fairground horses. The girl looks directly at Donald's camera, in the present tense as it were, while the boy's gaze is decidedly elsewhere, 'elsewhen'. The conventional site of fairground fun is here curiously undermined by the girls sullen scowl, the oblivious people in the background, and the hobby horses arificial, wooden and static gaiety, in all contrast to the boy's searching gaze towards something outside this world and beyond the frame"           

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PATRICK DONALD

      WELCOME to the portfollios of Photographer Patrick Donald. Specialising in black and white photographs of the Irish landscape and Dublin  he also travels to new interesting places every year to broaden his ever expanding body of work. Most recently he has travelled to Cuba in 2008 where he took some of his finest imagery to date documenting the people of Cuba in his unique style of street photography.  

By working with natural light and using predominantly black and white film his fine art photography spans the length and breadth of Irelands landscape. Looking through his work you will find that his seascape images are of particular note using his panoramic camera 'the xpan' shows his keen eye in capturing striking compositions and light (Panoramic Ireland). His photographs of Ireland include Connemara, Donegal, Cork, Wicklow, Kilkenny, 'the garden of Ireland' Glendalough, many of which are taken in Dublin where he was born in 1972. Amongst Patricks archive of Dublin images are several years of documenting the Smithfield Horse Fair which has changed considerably over the last five years. 

All of the black and white photos on this website have been made using traditional black and white film methods of capturing the images, from the negatives it is possible to purchase both handprinted silver gelatin photographs and pigmented inkjet media photographs.

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