Shooting the Darkness
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.
- Year: 2019
- Country: France, Germany, Ireland
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: RTÉ, Broadstone Films, ARTE GEIE, BAI
- Keyword: 1970s, war photographer, northern ireland, irish mob, ira (irish republican army), photojournalism, sinn féin, 1980s, 1960s, 1990s, political repression, religious persecution, the troubles (north ireland, 1966-98), domestic terrorism, state terrorism, press photographer, irish unionist, irish republican, social prejudice, irish history
- Director: Tom Burke
- Cast: Alan Lewis, Hugh Russell, Paul Faith, Crispin Rodwell, Trevor Dickson, Stanley Matchett
