Except that the photograph was taken by Dublin Freelance Photographer Kim Haughton on March 13th 2009"
This is the opening quote from a recent Sunday Independent article by journalist Jim Cusack about the photograph (above) of founder of Republican Sinn Fein, Ruairi O' Bradaigh. It's always interesting to hear other people's descriptions of your photographs.
I photographed Ruairi in the kitchen of his Roscommon home, originally for The Observer. I remember thinking at the time that the co-op calendar might make the wall look a bit too messy and I was also thinking it would have been better if the turf wasn't in the turf box, but just sitting there beside the old aga on the floor so you could see it better. But, I left everything as it was. Ruairi wanted to move the kettle off the stove but I asked him to leave it there. It wouldn't have worked without the kettle. I wasn't trying to make any political statement with the image, it was just the most visually interesting place in the house to photograph him.
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