Dia Dhuit!

I grew up in rural Ireland, where I spent a lot of my childhood reading and daydreaming. Looking back, storytelling always felt deeply rooted in my personality, even before I understood filmmaking was something you could actually pursue as a vocation.

After attending the National Film School in Dublin, I started working as a camera assistant and ended up spending most of my twenties on feature film sets and HETV : while assisting, I was also watching very talented people work, and slowly learning cinematography by osmosis. I think I was drawn to it because it felt like a strange mix of technical precision and pure instinct, which is probably how my brain works generally.

Later, I moved to London to study for my Master’s at the internationally renowned National Film and Television School (NFTS). More than anything, it gave me the space to properly explore my own perspective and the kinds of images I emotionally respond to. I think the way we see the world is constantly changing, and I like to think that my style of cinematography allows room for that evolution.

I shoot on both film and digital, though I try not to be too dogmatic about format because every project asks for something different. What interests me most is finding the emotional through lines of a story and building a visual language around it. A lot of my work gravitates toward naturalistic but expressive lighting, composed frames that still feel human, and performances that are allowed room to breathe.

I’m currently signed with UTA Production Arts, and my debut feature Printese is currently in post-production.

I care a lot about collaboration and about making work that feels emotionally sincere, even when it’s visually ambitious. Mostly, I’m interested in creating images that stay with people a little afterwards, in the quiet way some films do.

I’m available for projects worldwide and always happy to talk about new work, especially when it’s still in the early messy stages.