Documentary ·History ·TV Movie · France · 2019 · 53m

Shooting the Darkness

Shooting the Darkness poster
Director
Tom Burke
Cast
Alan Lewis as Self - Press Photographer Hugh Russell as Self - Press Photographer Paul Faith as Self - Press Photographer Crispin Rodwell as Self - Press Photographer Trevor Dickson as Self - Press Photographer Stanley Matchett as Self - Press Photographer
Crew
Tom Burke — Director of Photography Tom Burke — Editor Gerry Horan — Original Music Composer Alan Maher — Producer Caroline Laub — Producer Heike Lettau — Producer
Tagline

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

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
1970swar photographernorthern irelandirish mobira (irish republican army)photojournalismsinn féin1980s1960s1990spolitical repressionreligious persecution
Key Collaborators
Tom Burke Director Tom Burke Director of Photography Tom Burke Editor Gerry Horan Original Music Composer Alan Maher Producer Caroline Laub Producer Heike Lettau Producer Thomas Kelly Producer
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