About O'Flanagan Photography
INTRODUCTION
Multi-award winning photographer Michael O'Flanagan of O'Flanagan Photography is based in Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland. He has been creating fine photographs since the early 1970s using top of the range Mamiya, Nikon and Olympus medium format and 35mm film and digital cameras and lenses. He specialises in the creation of fine photographs and his current, principal areas of interest are landscape, seascape and people and places photography.
QUALIFICATIONS
Michael O'Flanagan was awarded a Licentiateship by the Irish Professional Photographers' and Videographers' Association (I.P.P.V.A) in 2010. He has a Ph.D. in Law (University of Galway) on "The Legal Rights and Restrictions on Taking and Publishing Photographs" - the first Ph.D. in Law awarded in Ireland on this topic. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (University of Limerick), a Bachelor of Business Studies specialising in Marketing Management (University of Limerick) and a Graduateship of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.
EXPERIENCE
Michael O'Flanagan has been in photography for many years. He has quality marketing services management experience and has worked on advertising and press and public relations campaigns for both the Irish and overseas markets, which required the generation and use of fine photographic images. His photographic work has been used in corporate annual reports, promotional literature, graphic display systems and trade fair stands, websites, advertisements and public relations campaigns. Images created by Michael O'Flanagan have been published in Ireland and overseas in magazines and newspapers and both in books and as book covers. Other images have featured on promotional products such as postcards, bookmarks, calendars, keyrings, fridge magnets and lithographic posters.
PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
During his years of membership of the I.P.P.V.A., Michael O'Flanagan won 72 awards (5 Gold Awards, 45 Silver Awards and 21 Bronze Awards and a Certificate of Excellence Award) for his photographic work at the Association's Annual Photographer of the Year Awards.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS
(2013 to Present)
Launched in May 2013, Ag Teacht is ag Imeacht is solo, permanent exhibition of 75 photographic images at Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr (the smallest of the Aran Islands), which documents Inis Oirr, the island's modernisation and developments and its people from the early 1970s through to 2013.
(2012)
Michael O'Flanagan was a joint participant in the I.P.P.V.A's 2012 Touring Exhibition, which was displayed in a number of Ireland’s cities. The exhibition featured Gold and Silver Award Winners from the Heats of the I.P.P.V.A. 2012 Photographer of the Year Awards.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Michael O'Flanagan has had two books published, namely a photobook on Inis Oírr (the smallest of the Aran Islands) and a legal textbook on photography and the law.
Photobook: "Inis Oírr — The Jewel of the Aran Islands"
Hardback Edition Publication Date: 13th October 2023
Publisher: Mercier Press
ISBN: 9781781178454
Click here to view the Mercier Press webpage on the photobook "Inis Oírr — The Jewel of the Aran Islands".
Legal Textbook: "Photography and the Law — Rights and Restrictions"
Paperback Edition Publication Date: 30th June 2020
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
ISBN: 9781138604773
Hardback Edition Publication Date: 5th November 2018
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
ISBN: 9780367584115
eBook Edition Publication Date: 12th October 2018
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
ISBN: 9780429468391
Click here to view the Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group) webpage on the legal textbook "Photography and the Law — Rights and Restrictions".