Shooting the Darkness
A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else
53 mins
The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.
Alan Lewis
Self - Press Photographer
Hugh Russell
Self - Press Photographer
Paul Faith
Self - Press Photographer
Crispin Rodwell
Self - Press Photographer
Trevor Dickson
Self - Press Photographer
Stanley Matchett
Self - Press Photographer
Martin Nangle
Self - Press Photographer
Tom Lawlor
Self - Press Photographer
Frankie Quinn
Self - Press Photographer
Sean O'Hagan
Self - Press Photographer
Edward Daly
Self - Catholic Priest (archive footage)
Martin Galvin
Self - NORAID Member (archive footage)
Dave Hughes
Color Grading
Kevin Breathnach
Sound Post Supervisor
Aisling Calt
Additional Editor
Thomas Kelly
Researcher
Sarah Ryder
Executive Producer
Alan Maher
Producer
Patrick Bolger
Still Photographer
Heike Lettau
Producer
Chris Woodcock
Sound Recordist
Kevin Breathnach
Sound Editor
Caroline Laub
Producer
Gerry Horan
Original Music Composer
Tom Burke
Director
Suzanne Biermann
Production Manager
Tom Burke
Editor
Thomas Kelly
Producer
Tom Burke
Director of Photography