David Creedon ARPS ABPPA
David Creedon was born in Cork Ireland. He always had an interest in photography and started to photograph local and touring bands in his late teens. His work is very varied but he tends to work more on documentary themed portfolios than anything else.
Among the projects he has worked on are: Ghosts of the Faithful Departed, Variations for Pianoforte, The New York Easter Parade, IL Carneval di Venezia, World Cup 2002, Automobiles, and Flowers.
His portraits of Irish musicians are very striking and have an almost film noir feel about them. An Associate of both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Professional Photographers Association his work is regularly published and he has been featured in a range of prestigious European, American and Australian photographic magazines. He has exhibited in the United States, the UK and Ireland and his photographs are held in both public & private collections in America and Europe. Recently his portfolio "Ghosts of the Faithful Departed" took runner up at Prix de la Photographie Paris.
"Ghosts of the Faithful Departed" has been chosen by the British Council to take part in their touring exhibition "Close to Home". The exhibition will be launched in London as part of the international summit in March 2008. it will then tour throughout Europe between May 2008 and April 2009
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 wrote "His haunting photographs transcend the documentary form and enter the realm of art, they are poems in photographs".
All photographs in this site are for viewing purposes only. Copyright to all of the photographs displayed is owned by David Creedon.
You may not sell, publish, license, download, reproduce, alter or otherwise distribute any of these photographs without the prior written permission of David Creedon. No images are within Public Domain. Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.
