“The first time I went to Ireland I was a photography student. That was 1979. I had decided to visit Belfast to get an impression of what the conflict is doing with a city. I didn’t have a lot of information, just what we had in the newspapers. I was also planning to visit a fishing cooperative in Toombridge on Lough Neagh that I had read about.

The second time I went to Belfast was in 1981. That was the time of the hunger strikes. There was a chance to get a seat on a bus to Michael Devine’s funeral in Derry. He had died the week I was taking pictures in Belfast.

My stays in Belfast were only ever for a week. I was still a student and didn’t have a lot of money. I was hitchhiking.”

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