Shooting the Darkness
Released: January 30, 2019Runtime: 53 min
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.
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Gerry Adams
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Edward Daly
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Trevor Dickson
as Self - Photographer for The Newsletter
Paul Faith
as Self - Photographer for Pacemaker
Martin Galvin
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Tom Lawlor
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Alan Lewis
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Stanley Matchett
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Theresa May
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Martin Nangle
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