About
David Creedon was born in Cork Ireland and has been described as a conceptual documentary photographer. Among the projects he has worked on are: The Last Cooper (2010) Una Corda (The soft Pedal), Variations on Pianoforte, Ghosts of the Faithful Departed, Easter Parade, IL Carneval di Venezia.
He holds associateship from both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Professional Photographers Association in visual documentary and his work is regularly published and have featured in a range of prestigious European, American & Australian magazines.
The Irish Independent has called him “Cork’s Vermeer” while the Irish Times has described his photographs as “Meticulously made”. Recently he has been selected as one of the Fifty Greatest Masters of Photography in a new book “Photography in 100 words” by David Clark. His images have appeared on various cd and book covers and he has completed work for Nobel Literature prizewinner Gabriel José García Márquez and the BBC National Orchestra.
He has exhibited in the United States, mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland.
In 2009 a major solo exhibition of his work was hosted at the prestigious Photofusion gallery in London, and he has also completed a twelve-month European tour where he was exhibited at eminent galleries and museums in Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, and N.Ireland with the British Council. In 2010 he wil be exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels and his work will also form part of the “Altered Images” exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin.
He has received the runner up award from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris and his work been nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize as well as been chosen on the “official selection” panel at the International Photography Awards in New York.
In Ireland Creedon’s work has been described "as one of the most significant collections of photography in contemporary Ireland and will be amongst the most important works of Irish art in years to come", while another critic has written, "His photographs transcend the documentary form and enter the realm of art, they are poems in photographs".
His photographs are now in a number of important public collections including; the Irish State Art Collection, local government and private institutions, as well as held by private collectors in America and Europe.
