Shooting the Darkness
“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.
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Edited by Tom BurkeScored by Gerry Horan
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14 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Gerry Adams
as Self
Edward Daly
as Self
Trevor Dickson
as Self - Photographer for The Newsletter
Paul Faith
as Self - Photographer for Pacemaker
Martin Galvin
as Self - Director of Noraid
Tom Lawlor
as Self - Photographer for The Irish Times
Alan Lewis
as Pacemaker
Stanley Matchett
as The Mirror
Theresa May
as Self
Martin Nangle
as Self - Freelance Photographer for Pacemaker
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