Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland
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| Ciara O'Donnell |
Creative & Diverse – Professional Photography
I work as an Event, Wedding and Portrait Photographer, in the Munster Area – Kerry-based, but my work takes me anywhere.
Originally from The Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare I moved to Kerry last year with my family, where I have been working with local businesses, individuals, preschools and fashion retail outlets on a frequent basis.
I photograph people, primarily. That is what interests me.
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| Erica Gimbell, Actress and Singer |
Erica from “Fame” was in Dublin filming the “Fame Academy” TV show. I was asked to take her portrait for publicity. She used this image on her new CD for release in Japan in 2010
A Professional & Creative Irish Photographer
I have always been creative, for as long as I can remember and was making things with my hands from a very young age.
I always studied art outside of school hours, learning life drawing from a very young age, all the way through college.
After a brief interest in Architecture, I realised I needed more than that could offer me, I trained as a Designer in Hertfordshire for 3 years before moving on to study Production Design for Film in the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin and graduating with the first class of Production Designers ever to come out of Ireland. I went straight into RTE to work as a Production Designer where I remained for 5 years.
I was trained in all new technologies while there – AutoCAD – learning from the very start how to work as part of a team and how the world of television production works.
Freelance Art Director
In 2000 I took the decision to become freelance – this opened me up to the world of Film Production.
I worked as a freelance Art Director for over 12 years. During this time Photography always played a major role in my life. I always kept up with technology and had a good camera as well as the many old ones I collected along the way! My daily work required me to have and be able to use a camera well, as part of every job I did. Photoshop, Illustrator and other editing software were part and parcel of my everyday work. So I was always up to speed on software too. I went as far as to work as a graphic designer on some of the films I worked on. I decided to re-train as a photographer in 2008 after realising I wanted to try to pursue it as a career. I was already using my photographs for my work, why not crank it up a gear…
In 2008 I graduated with a Higher Diploma (Distinction) in Photographic Media from Griffith College Dublin at night, while still working.
Freelance Photography
So I became a freelance photographer, and now almost exclusively work in that field. Thankfully my new qualification excellerated me into the photographic work as I already had so many production contacts in Film and TV.
When I moved out of Dublin, it allowed me to work as an events photographer in the community and with local businesses.
www.ciaraphotography.com
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