Arthur Fields putting life in focus

From the 1930s until he retired in 1988, Fields stood on O’Connell St Bridge, photographing passers-by. He was even there on Christmas Day. A conservative estimate puts the number of photos he took at 182,500.
No negatives exist. His wife, Doreen, developed the photos from a dark room under the stairs of their house in Raheny. They were dried on the clothesline in the garden, and later posted to the subjects.