Donations help Peter’s book see the light of day

Proving that ‘necessity is the soul of invention’, Peter Cox has just launched his first collection of photographs depicting Ireland’s landscapes using an unusual, but effective, funding source.

His book, entitled The Irish Light, was made possible by the fundraising medium of crowdsourcing, whereby a large pool of people contribute relatively small sums of money to collectively aid a project.

Convinced there was a market for a book of his photographs despite rejections from publishing houses that the current climate didn’t bode well for such a venture, Peter was forced to consider other funding methods: “As soon as I found Kickstarter, I knew I’d got the perfect fundraising vehicle,” he explained.