A first-hand look at a tumultuous period. Set record because it airs Wednesday.
Anyone who watched the most recent edition of The Late Late Show couldn’t help but be moved by the stories of Alan Lewis and Crispin Rodwell, two men who were photographers during The Troubles.
As they told Ryan Tubridy, their images depicted the importance of photography in a war zone and how one image, one moment, one fleeting glance, can say so much.
In the new documentary Shooting the Darkness, viewers are introduced to a number of photographers who witnessed The Troubles at first-hand and unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own town.
What’s it like to become a war correspondent in your own town? How can you process the horror unfolding on a daily basis? How can you move past some of the horrific things that you’ve seen?
Essentially, that’s what the documentary aims to uncover as the filmmakers conduct in-depth interviews with a variety of photographers including; Alan Lewis, Paul Faith, Hugh Russell, Martin Nangle, Crispin Rodwell, Trevor Dickson and Stanley Matchett.
Ultimately, as you can see in the clip below, “photographers don’t take sides, they take pictures”.
Shooting the Darkness airs on RTÉ One at 22:35 on 30 January.
Take a look at what’s in store.
Clip and image via RTÉ
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