Hi Folks, details below of my new exhibition titled

'From The Darkroom to The Lightroom'.

If your in Sligo over the next four weeks, please feel free to drop into the Capture Gallery above Shooting Star. Market Street, Sligo.

Mike Bunn is possibly Irelands best known contemporary photographer especially in the fields of Fashion - Travel - and - Corporate. Over a 25 year period his client list looks like a who's who and for whom he has won many awards. For the past 2 years he has been voted Irelands best fashion photographer for the Motorola Dublin Fashion Week and RTE Off The Rails/Image Magazine Fashion awards. He has worked closely with many of our top fashion designers and corporate companies such as John Rocha - Lainey Keogh - Louise Kennedy - the late Tony Ryan (Ryanair) - Guinness Ireland - Aer lingus - Dennis O'Brien (PGA Catalunya and Quinta Do Lago) to name a few.

After studying figure drawing at Camberwell Art School in London and still a student Mike began traveling the world and discovered photography - from the very first time he picked up a camera it became his first true love and has been a way of life for him ever since. Whether it is a landscape - a still life - a portrait - or a fashion shot he insists it is all beauty and they all demand the same disciplines. Mike has stayed true to the classical meaning of photography and at the same time is always keen to take onboard new challenges such as the now omnipresent age of the digital/computer image. The collection of prints at the Capture Gallery represent a cross pollination of classical photography using modern ways of printing the final image with the computer and state of the art printers. Most of the images on show are from scanned black/white and colour negatives using film cameras printed on 100% cotton rag paper using pigment ink guaranteed for 75 - 100 years which Mike painstakingly prints himself.

Mike's understanding of light and light ratios has been a constant obsession that drives him on and on towards seeking further excellence in his image making that stands him alone - and he insists it is this understanding of light and how and when to use it that is the maxim for any one interested not only in photography but anything that is of beauty.

The mixed bag of images on show at the Capture Gallery illustrates this perfectly. All the images without exception have been carefully and sensitively composed and choreographed - not one of them is a random "Snap Shot" not even the horses racing on Culleenamore Strand.