Photographer Spotlight: Eamonn Doyle

Doyle began studying painting in college and while there discovered the work of Josef Koudelka, Bill Brandt, and Garry Winogrand, “people like that, sort of classic but with a darker edge.” He has been shooting pictures since the 1980s, though he detoured into the music business for 20 years — running a record label, music festival, and record shop along the way. In 2010, he quit that scene, bought a Leica, and shot in color, and digitally, for the first time. His home turf of central Dublin became his reentry point. When he published the images as a book, esteemed photographer-historian Martin Parr became a fan, and his support made the edition sell out in a flash. But Doyle so nimbly framed the human condition that his series would eventually have found an ardent audience.