Photographer extraordinaire Denis Scannell: an appreciation

Consummate professional and complete gentleman made every home he photographed a palace: his enormous archive lives on

Hold the front page: a tiny fraction of Denis Scannell's work, in their rightful home, on page one of the Irish Examiner's Property & Home pages

THE death occurred last weekend of photographer extraordinaire and utter gentleman Denis Scannell, a man who was incapable of taking a bad photograph: his lens work from his ever-present cameras graced and enhanced these Property & Home pages, and those of the Irish (and, Cork)  Examiner too on a wider front, for decades.

Apart from his family, photography was Denis’ life passion, having got his first camera at the age of 13, to document nature which he had always loved.