Shooting the Darkness (2019)

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

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.

Cast (14)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

A

Alan Lewis

Self - Press Photographer

H

Hugh Russell

Self - Press Photographer

P

Paul Faith

Self - Press Photographer

C

Crispin Rodwell

Self - Press Photographer

T

Trevor Dickson

Self - Press Photographer

S

Stanley Matchett

Self - Press Photographer

M

Martin Nangle

Self - Press Photographer

T

Tom Lawlor

Self - Press Photographer

F

Frankie Quinn

Self - Press Photographer

S

Sean O'Hagan

Self - Press Photographer

E

Edward Daly

Self - Catholic Priest (archive footage)

M

Martin Galvin

Self - NORAID Member (archive footage)

Theresa May

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

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