Beginner’s pluck: Michael Delahunty

Michael became interested in photography when a friend taught him how to develop black and white pictures. He brought his first camera at 14, having saved up for it for a year. It cost £3.26.

“I visited the camera several times before I bought it,” he says, “and when I had bought it, I couldn’t afford the film.”

At fifteen, Michael had two of the only five Irish pictures exhibited that year in the Irish Salon of Photography.