This video was photographed by Roberto Forte in 2013
FILM
The Truth Is In The Negative

Photographs by Pádraig Grant

The treatment of light and shade, the love of home, the addiction to adventure and capturing 'the' moment are just some of the elements that are alive in Pádraig's photographs. His approach to image making is always about passionate engagement.

Pádraig has traveled the world in search of existentially defining moments, images made against a backdrop of terrible and terrifying calamity, these images are snatched from a fleeting and ever receding reality.

The images that he makes of Wexford are informed by this world view. But in Wexford he is looking for the “global in the local” as Billy Roche puts it.

The BBC said when reviewing one of Pádraig's exhibitions that he “has a powerful point to make that hits you when you least expect it”.

The title refers to the Pádraig's love of shooting pictures on black and white film. For as he says himself “the truth is in the negative”.