Shooting the Darkness

Also known as Irlande du Nord : des photos qui ont marqué l’histoire, Nordirland: Fotos, die Geschichte schrieben, Irlanda del Norte: fotos que han hecho historia, Irlandia Północna: zdjęcia, które przeszły do historii, Irlanda del Nord: le foto che hanno fatto la storia

“A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else”

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.