James Whorriskey

Born in 1970 in the Bogside in Derry~Londonderry - Northern Ireland (The North). Childhood years spent through some of the most turbulent times in Ireland's armed conflict when rioting and shooting on the streets of my home town were part and parcel of everyday life.

I often wish that I'd had the benefit of hindsight - coupled with a few quid for a decent camera - in those formative years. If I'd had, I would have surely captured some of the most amazing images of everyday life in a conflict zone because, even though I didn't see it that way at the time, that was in fact what 1970's and 1980's Derry was. (I patiently await the arrival of mind download technology to reproduce those images)

At 15, as well as studying for exams, I became involved in Irish pirate radio in Donegal and have over the past thirty years presented radio programmes on both Irish pirate and legal radio stations.

As well as starting out in radio in the mid eighties, I also developed and pursued a keen and active interest in photography, although, unfortunately in those earlier years I was, like most, limited by the costs involved in purchasing and developing film (and hampered by the absence of mind download technology.)

Nowadays I work freelance,...