FORTY FOOTERS

Barry Delaney

“The magic of this collection is that it meets the viewer at their own level. The pictures can be appreciated simply as a celebration of Life as something to be enjoyed opportunistically – a lesson that the sunbathers of cold, grey Dublin know only too well. But they are also one-frame stories, brimming with narrative and suggestion. Like the wrinkled green water of the Forty Foot itself, these are photographs to immerse yourself in and return to. “

From the introduction by Rónán Hession

BARRY DELANEY

Inspired by the colour, energy and DIY attitude of punk, Barry fled the grey Dublin of the early 1980s, to travel the world and fell in love with documentary photography. Twenty years ago he began documenting life in inner city Dublin. This became Stars and Souls of the Liffey which he exhibited at the GPO in 2019 along with the now sold out Hi Tone book. He returned to America for the 2016 election and produced his second Hi Tone book on life in Modern America – Americans Anonymous, with poems by John O’Donnell.

In 2022 his picture ‘Forty Footer’ was shortlisted for the Zurich portrait prize at the National Gallery.

Author: Barry Delaney
Foreword: Rónán Hession
Poem: John O’Donnell
ISBN: 978-1-8380385-9-5
Format: Hardback, 263 x 246mm, landscape
Extent: 52 pages
Edition: 300 copies
Weight: 0.65kg
Published: June 2024
Design: Niall McCormack

Supported by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council