Shooting the Darkness

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

Shooting the Darkness

Documentary|

History|

TV Movie|

7/10

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.

Alan Lewis

Hugh Russell

Paul Faith

Crispin Rodwell

Trevor Dickson

Stanley Matchett

Martin Nangle

Tom Lawlor

Frankie Quinn

Sean O'Hagan

Edward Daly

Martin Galvin

Theresa May

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom