As Eamonn Doyle's photographs are showcased at Paris Photo this week, AnOther considers his work within the great tradition of street photography.
Doyle’s idiosyncratic portraits of old inhabitants of his native Dublin are a bold new presentation of a familiar genre. At once candid and composed, they capture the colour and frailty of the human condition in an urban environment. His timeless characters simultaneously provide a meditation on the act of photography itself, of fleeting encounters captured, a transient moment immortalised. Now appropriated by the fashion industry, new and inventive forays into the genre are a rare treat. Here, AnOther talks to Eamonn Doyle to discover how he has created just that alongside a rainbow selection of our favourites.
