Cathal McNaughton via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Cathal McNaughton
- City: Cushendall, Co. Antrim
- Country: Ireland
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Cathal McNaughton is a multi-award-winning photojournalist currently based in Ireland. After winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, Cathal relocated back to Ireland where he is continuing his work documenting people and places.
Previously Cathal was chief photographer for Reuters in India and has travelled extensively in Asia covering news stories of world importance. He also worked for Reuters in Europe, the Press Association and The Daily Telegraph - and his work regularly features in leading publications across the globe.
Cathal’s photography has won him major accolades including POYI, U.K Press Photographer of the Year, Royal Photographer of the Year and Environmental Photographer of the Year. His work capturing the struggle of the exiled Rohingya Muslims saw him awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in New York in 2018.
Cathal leads master classes, workshops and conferences in universities and he travels worldwide talking about the role of the media in divided societies and the importance of factual journalism in the world of social media.
Born during the height of ‘The Troubles,’ Cathal was inspired to become a photographer after meeting photojournalists from across the world who were working in Ireland during the the civil unrest. As the youngest child with two bossy older sisters, Cathal describes himself as a tolerant person who to this day is a fan of a knitted jumper. He does not trust horses!
Contact Information
- Email: cathalmcnaughton@hotmail.com
My Media & Markets
My Instruction
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Lessons/Workshops:
STREET/REPORTAGE ONE DAY COURSE
This is a practical hands-on street photography workshop for all levels of ability. There will be plenty of time for one-on-one tuition as well as shooting time throughout the day. Whether you are a complete novice and shoot pictures using your smart phone, or if you have the latest DSLR, the principals are the same and I can help you make the most of your photography. Regardless of equipment or experience it is my job to get the best from you and help you take pictures you will be proud of.
I love taking these workshops because they are fun. I held my first course over 10 years ago and in that time I’ve realised that when you are having fun you relax and your confidence grows. This enables you to lose your fears and shoot without hesitation. No more ‘what if’ moments. I’ll be there to guide you and help you capture your decisive moment.
We will concentrate on building pictures and stories using the principles of light, composition, layers and moment. We will work through a series of challenges that will help you understand your camera more and help you beat the fear of shooting on the street.
It’s a great opportunity to meet other street photographers and to share your passion in photography - and you can keep in touch after the workshop. You should come away with a sense of empowerment, having learned new techniques and taken some pictures you are proud of.
WORKSHOP DETAILS – SINGLE DAY SHOOTS
The single-day options runs from 10 am until around 4pm depending on light and location. We start by meeting for coffee and having a quick chat about what we hope to achieve and what to look out for. There will be a short break around lunchtime (I recommend bringing a packed lunch as you might want to keep on working through your break) and then we finish with a debrief in a bar or coffee shop for more inspiration, chat and usually a bit of craic.
These street photography workshops are limited to six participants and cost £200 Per Person.
https://www.cathal-mcnaughton.com/booking
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
