CinemaOSMovie · 2019 · 0h 53m

Shooting the Darkness

A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else

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The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

Directed byTom Burke

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 53m
Language
EN
Released
January 30, 2019
Studios
RTÉBroadstone FilmsARTE GEIE

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Alan Lewis

Self - Press Photographer

Hugh Russell

Self - Press Photographer

Paul Faith

Self - Press Photographer

Crispin Rodwell

Self - Press Photographer

Trevor Dickson

Self - Press Photographer

Stanley Matchett

Self - Press Photographer

Martin Nangle

Self - Press Photographer

Tom Lawlor

Self - Press Photographer

Frankie Quinn

Self - Press Photographer

Sean O'Hagan

Self - Press Photographer

Creative team
Directed by
Tom Burke
Produced by
Alan Maher
Heike Lettau

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