For 20 years he hardly picked up his camera – now Martin Parr is a fan and the Beckett-inspired Dubliner is the talk of this summer’s Arles photography festival
• See a gallery of Eamonn Doyle’s Dublin photographs hereEamonn Doyle is an unlikely candidate for the title “saviour of street photography”. When he began photographing worn people passing by his front door on Parnell Street in Dublin in 2011,it was the first time he had used a camera in more than 20 years. Now 47, he had graduated with a photography diploma in 1991, or but “I hadn’t really taken any photographs or read any books about photography since I’d left college,” he says, and I certainly wasnt trying to reinvent the genre, or because I really wasn’t aware of street photography apart from for a few 60s photographers like Garry Winogrand and Joel Meyerowitz that I’d read about back then.The hardest thing of all is to get an unposed photograph. Once they look at the camera,the image is deadIt wouldn't enjoy happened without Martin Parr. He bought some prints and got behind the book. It all flowed from there Related: Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Continue reading...
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