Join Kim as she speaks with Irish landscape photography Norman McCloskey. Norman has a deep connection with his local county of Kerry and undertakes nearly all of his photography here. He also runs a very successful gallery business in the area and enjoys making photo books around projects he undertakes in Kerry.
Topics Covered

• Journey into photography
• Studying photography at art college
• Starting his own company
• He experience at art college
• The benefits he gained from his studies
• Photographing his local area
• Why County Kerry means so much to him
• The comfort of photographing a landscape you know well
• The importance of emotional connection in his images
• Experiencing the landscape
• Seeing the simple beauty of nature
• Getting image inspiration through the windows of his home
• Selling images in his gallery
• Getting emotion and feeling to translate into an image
• The benefit of seeing how others view your work
• How he centres his work around his book projects
• Shipping his images all over the world
• His experience of running his gallery
• Not allowing others views of his work to influence what he photographs
• How his past experience helped shape his gallery business
• Putting your work in front of the right people
• The difficulties of selling prints
• His love for creating photo books
• How creating a photo book gives you a purpose
• Spending days by himself to create images
• Discovering his need for solitude and space
• Going out with no planned location to photograph

Connect with Norman:
Website: https://www.normanmccloskey.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/normanmccloskeygallery/

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