Marcelo Badari

Marcelo Badari is a brazilian graphic artist who has worked as a freelance Illustrator producing illustrations for editorial, advertising and design studios in Brazil.
Now he´s currently living in Dublin to improve his English, to take some stout beers and to give continuity to his drawings and music. This is what he said about his day in Blackrock. "The day in Blackrock was a surprise for me. I was curious and I didn´t know if someone could see our intervention. But few minutes after we had start to glue the papers on the stone wall, two girls arrived and began to ask us about our creation. And the wall is near a train station and a pedestrian bridge as well. I think people will be able to see our Blackrock intervention and they could go to the beach near the wall to have a closest view". You can see more of Marcelo's work at the following link http://www.badari.net/

                          

Unlike the other gentlemen on this list, I don’t have any fancy awards or tales of fascinating lives honing my ‘art’ or finding a calling in life! To be honest, I am an uninteresting person without much to say! I studied Film and Literature at ARU in Cambridge, because I figured I couldn’t pass any other kind of course. After that I ran away to Japan for three years, working as a classroom assistant, before returning to the drudgery of life in England. Realising that temp jobs and call centres would be the death of me, I took a CELTA course, learned to teach (sort of) and ran off to Vietnam. I’m still here. In my spare time I indulge my love of video production. For a sample click on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jxvy7W9bqo

 Felix Lill

"As a little kid, when I started to play football in my parents’ garden, I had no friends to compete with because I was not yet playing in a team. So, in order to make up good matches between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, I sometimes needed to foul myself by stepping over my left foot and then fall to the ground. Those matches are always tough, that’s why. I as the referee gave me as Real’s defender the yellow card and I as the reporter claimed that I should have got the red card actually.

Outside of the garden, I never became a referee and due to many injuries I had to stop playing football but there was no way to keep me away from being the reporter. First in Hamburg, then in Vienna, I worked as a freelancer, shifted over to writing journalism though. Right now my business is travelling by writing and writing by travelling around the world. My texts have been published in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Ukraine and Vietnam so far. I hope there are more places to follow."

Colm Pierce
"It's not the pictures I've taken, it's the pictures I've missed that plague my mind."

I took my first pictures at around the age of 13 with a Rolleiflex box camera lent to me by an old man who ran my local youth club.  He showed me how to develop the shots and print them.  I left Dublin in the 80's and found myself in Paris.  There I spent 15 years of my life working for newspapers and magazines, including Elle and The Guardian.

I'm currently working on various stories in Ireland. I see the work of a photographer as similar to that of a good writer: when you read the book, you forget the writer.  With a good photograph, people should be attracted to the subject matter and forget who took the picture.  The subject should take the viewer to another place.