Here’s one of my photographs of clouds rolling in over the sunset, west of of Svalbard, high in the Arctic, being used for the cover the German edition of Irish author William Trevor’s “Last Stories”, or Letzte Erzählungen, published by Hoffman unde Campe in April 2020. The photograph was licensed through Millennium Images in London.
Read More »Book cover: William Trevor: Last stories (Letzte Erzählungen)
Just arrived in the post – beautiful Millennium Catalogue VI: AM/PM featuring my Sunset on Arctic Sea Ice sunset photograph.
View my full Millennium Images portfolio here.
Here’s my photograph of a Fiat 500 in a Palermo street featured on the cover of the English translation of Andrea Camilleri’s Excursion to Tindari – an Inspector Montalbano Mystery, published by MacMillan.
Here’s one of my photos of Common Murres in an article by Sabrina Shankman in Inside Climate News on how “a new study unravels the… Read More »Inside Climate News: Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change
Published November 20, 2019 – update January 7, 2020: Here’s two four of my images being featured in articles in New Statesman magazine, thanks to… Read More »Icebergs, Berlin and Barcelona in New Statesman
One of my photographs of Hans Island, an uninhabited dome of rock between Greenland and Ellesmere Island was published recently in UK magazine Geographical.
One my photographs, depicting the setting sun behind Dublin’s Poolbeg power station has been used in a New York Times article about Ireland’s recent divestment… Read More »My photo in the New York Times & NPR: Ireland Divests from Fossil Fuels
Yellowstone Grand Prismatic Spring photo by Dave Walsh in High Country News.
Aerial views of Melt Pools and melt rivers on Petermann Glacier, in remote northwest Greenland.
Here’s a photo I made from a Greenpeace helicopter over Petermann Glacier in remote Northwestern Greenland in 2009 during a Greenpeace campaign to look at how climate change was affecting Greenland’s outlet glaciers, before the infamous Copenhagen climate meeting. Those are meltpools on the floating tongue of the Glacier, and the black blobs are cryoconite, deposits of rock, soil, soot, and other matter that collects on ice, then melts its way down. The 80km long, 20km wide floating tongue of Petermann Glacier currently accounts for about 10% of the output of ice from Greenland’s Ice Cap.
Read More »Petermann Glacier in National Geographic Traveller
Tearsheet news! My photograph of the amazing Global Seed Vault in Svalbard has made the cover of Grainwest magazine, based in Calgary, Canada, for an article titled “The Doomsday Vault: Gene Banks and Their Keepers Preserve The Building Blocks of Nature”. You can read the online article here, Seeds of Futures Past. Thanks to Grainwest Sales and Production Coordinator Tommy Wilson for publishing the photo.
Read More »Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Grainswest
I received this beautiful book in the post yesterday – an Atlas of Mammals in Ireland, 2010-2015, published by the National Biodiversity Data Centre, and authored by Liam Lysaght and Ferdia Marnell. I’m honoured to have two of my photographs featured – one depicting Ireland’s majestic red deer, and the other, our under appreciated feral goats. The book is out, and in the shops, so check your local (Irish) bookshop now.
Update – check out this video from RTE News about the book.
Read More »Photographs featured in Irish Mammal Atlas
Wild goats at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. These goat herds became wild between medieval times and the early 20th century – the species are not native to Ireland.
It’s always a great feeling when you find your pictures have been run by an international publication – in this case, VW Pics/Redux placed some of my photographs from the Irish counties of Cork, Clare and Donegal with National Geographic Travel, for a feature on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way – the epic route along the country’s west coast. Enjoy!
Read More »Wild Atlantic Way in National Geographic
Iceberg cover image by Dave Walsh for Conserving the Arctic conference
On 4th of March 2015, one of my Arctic iceberg photographs was used by Greenpeace and independent meeting organiser QED (qed.eu) for EU Arctic Dialogue “Conserving the Arctic – A stronger role for Europe?” near Waterloo, outside Brussels, Belgium. The event was officially endorsed by the Finnish Foreign Ministry, and hosted by Mr Jean-Marie Delwart, one of the signatories of the International Declaration on the Future of the Arctic, in his Château d’Argenteuil, near Brussels. High-level guests (including European decision-makers, Ministers, business and civil society leaders and top-level signatories of the International Declaration on the Future of the Arctic) attended during an afternoon of speeches and conversations, followed by a cocktail and a dinner.
Read More »Tearsheet: Conserving the Arctic: A Stronger Role for Europe
For all the travelling I’ve done, it’s always good to come home. I am writing these words 50m away from the River Slaney, in the south east of Ireland, with a a copy of Crossabeg: The Parish and its People (Vol 2) waiting for me. And I’m honoured to be featured in the book. When my neighbour here, Alice Devine, one of the team who put the book together asked me to write something about my travels, I thought the best way was to show how my upbringing in Crossabeg provided the foundation for everything that followed – including my trips to the Arctic and the Antarctica. For those of you not able to get your hands on the book, here’s what I wrote:
Last week, I had coffee with Belgian journalist, Camille Goret, at his office in central Brussels. So central is Camille’s office, it’s practically in the same building, the city’s Gare de Central. I was there to pontificate about my forthcoming photography exhibition, hosted by the Ville de Bruxelles and Greenpeace Belgium, but in the course of things, Camille mentioned that he’d seen on my photographs, the Sleeping Dragon, on the cover of a book.
Read More »William T Vollman, the Vikings, Greenland and Me
The above image appeared in The Irish Independent‘s Weekend Magazine, on April 2013, as part of Behind the Lens, a series where the editors ask “Ireland’s best known photographers to send us a shot of their proudest work and explain in a few lines why it’s their favourite piece. ”
So, here’s what I wrote:
Read More »Behind the Lens: Sleeping Dragon Featured in Irish Independent Weekend Magazine
I’m delighted to share these images with you – my picture of an iceberg, made in Nugatsiaq, West Greenland in 2009, has been featured on the front cover of the March 2013 issue of GEO France magazine (circulation 250,000). I made the image, of a high altitude cloud ‘erupting’ over a triple-arched iceberg, while sailing by on the Greenpeace icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise.
Read More »Arctic Iceberg photo makes front cover of GEO France
Congratulations to Jack Laurenson and the team at Inquire Magazine, which yesterday scooped Best News and Business Magazine and Best Launch (new magazine) – at the Digital Magazine Awards.
Read More »The Cold Edge in Inquire Magazine
Great news: A selection of images from The Cold Edge series has been featured by the Discovery News homepage!
The Arctic is changing. Summer sea ice extent this year was at its lowest in the satellite record as global warming tightens its grip. But change is relative. At their most hostile, the polar regions remain cold and forbidding: as photographer Dave Walsh calls them in his new book, “The Cold Edge” of the planet.
Walsh, who has traveled to Arctic and Antarctic multiple times over the last several years, launched his book with an exhibit at the Copper House Gallery in his native Ireland. “I wanted my photographs” – such as this iceberg, a bright blue as a result of ice being compressed for thousands of years – “to inspire people to not only fall in love with their home planet, but to start giving a damn and take action to protect it.” says Walsh.
Back in mid-October, The Straits Times in Singapore ran a double spread with my Cold Edge photographs, with the title “Knock ’em cold”. It’s good… Read More »The Cold Edge featured in the Straits Times, Singapore
