Minihan in the picture

A RETROSPECTIVE exhibition is often an admission the game is up, we may as well look back because there won’t be much point expecting anything new in the future.

Celebrating his 66th birthday mere days ago, John Minihan’s photography career has now spanned an incredible 50 years, but while most would be content to rest on their laurels and milk the plaudits, Minihan never flags.

He is constantly pursuing new projects, including an ongoing documentation of Irish emigrants to the US, and while his current exhibition, Film Photography, showing in the Kildare Village Outlet, spans his entire career, the most recent photograph, of Shane McGowan, was taken only last month.