EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATIONS

2011

Politics of the Everyday, Photography and Ireland, Reaktion Books, Editor, Dr.Justin Carville.

A Hard Place, video, screening, Spike Island Open Studios, Spike island, Bristol.

2010

Night Time Room, video, Kassel Documentary Film Video Festival, screening, Kassel, Germany.

I Remember, video, 4th Cairo Video Festival, Goethe Institute, exhibition, Cairo, Egypt.

Long Kesh Bird, photography, Recording Memories from Political Conflict: A Film-makers Journey. Intellect Books, Cahal McLaughlin.

Night Time Room I Remember, video, Based on a True Story, exhibition, ArtSway Gallery, UK.

A Hard Place, Verwertung Interdisciplinary Arts festival, A Hard Place,
video screening, Group Exhibition, Berlin.

Night Time Room-I Remember, video & photography,solo exhibition, Picture This,  Bristol.

A Hard Place, video, screening, group exhibition, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, New York.

2009

A Hard Place, video, Open 09, group exhibition, ArtSway Gallery, UK.

Night Time Room, video, screening, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.

2008

Research is Practice, video & photography, solo exhibition, Ffloc Gallery, University of Wales Newport, UK.

2007

A Hard Place, video, Northern Bounds, group exhibition, Videographie, Montreal, Canada.

A Hard Place, video, group exhibition, Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
Between a Rock, photography, group exhibition, Apexarts  Gallery,
New York.

A Hard Place, video, ScreenWork Journal of Media Practice, (DVD edition) Magazine.

A Hard Place, video, War & Peace 07, group exhibition,
touring UK: Arnolfini Bristol, Bath Film Festival, Stroud Valley.

2006

Greetings from Hezbollah, photography, X-Mass The Spot, group exhibition, Draiocht Arts Center, Ireland.

The Politics of the Everyday, photography, 9th International Syrian Photography Festival, exhibition, Aleppo, Syria.

Archive, video, screening, Darklight Film Festival, Irish Film Institute, Dublin.

Archive, video, Temporary Identities, group exhibition, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia.

Artist Talk, Photo-London Photographic Fair, Royal College of Art, London.

2004

Ticker, film, BBC Choice Cuts Competition, First Prize,
network screening, BBC Digital.

Ticker, film, Fernseh und FilmFest, screening, Cologne.

Ticker, film, Kino Short Film Festival, screening, Manchester.

AWARDS

Artist to Artist Award, Visiting Arts, UK-Iran Exchange.
Open Frequency, profile, Axis Contemporary Arts, UK.

2008

Scripted Notions Award, Artists’ Film Project, Picture This, South West Screen and UK Film Council.

2005-07

Professional Training and Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland.

Travel Award, Arts Council, Aleppo Photo Festival, Syria.

2004

Events Award, Art Council, The Werner Herzog Film Festival, Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim, Ireland.

International Residency, Lazaera Monastery, Romania.

EMPLOYMENT

2012

Associate Professor of Photography, American University of Cairo, Egypt.

2007-2011

Senior Lecturer in Photographic Art, The University of Wales, Newport, Wales.

2001-05

Lecturer in Photography, Griffith College Dublin.

EDUCATION

2004-10

PhD in Photographic Research, The University of Wales Newport.

2001-02

Masters in Computer Science Multi-Media Systems, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

1998-01

BA Hons, Visual Communication, University of Ulster, Belfast.

1993-95

National Diploma in Photography, I.A.D.T. Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.