Photographic exhibition brings RNLI's perilous work to life

THE seas are rolling. You’re trying to stand still, to keep the horizons level, the camera dry, the lens in focus and to hold on.

Shooting photos from the heaving deck of a lifeboat is challenging, but Nigel Millard captured the drama, the breaking waves and — in rough waters — the splash of orange that is an RNLI lifeboat. He accepted a commission to shoot photos for Dr Huw Lewis-Jones’s new book, The Lifeboat: Courage on our Coasts, celebrating the RNLI.

Four hundred of his photos are in the book, published by Conway, and 51 of them — six taken in Ireland — feature in an outdoor exhibition that runs in Dublin’s Grand Canal Square until Dec 2.