Date created: January 2011

Web Address: www.petermatthews.ie

About the Project: I built this website for the very talented Peter Matthews, a Bray-based photographer.  The brief was to keep the site quite clean and minimalist, in order to make Peter’s beautiful photography the main focus.  The site was built through WordPress, and contains a slideshow gallery on the homepage.

Peter has an extremely impressive portfolio and cv – his work has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, USA Today and Newsweek.  He is also a personable and lovely individual, and would be a pleasure to have around at a wedding – I would very much recommend getting in touch with him if you are looking for a wedding photographer.

Click the image to see a slideshow of materials from the Haiti Lives exhibition

Date created: June 2010

Web Address: www.oxfamireland.org/haiti-lives

About the Project: Haiti Lives is a photography exhibition that was organised by Oxfam, to show the recovery work that Oxfam is carrying out in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of January 2010. The exhibition featured 30 beautiful, inspiring images taken by photojournalist Ami Vitale, Jane Beesley of Oxfam and Jorge Silva of Reuters, and was on display in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse Centre for the month of July.

I was in charge of designing the identity and all materials for the exhibition, and preparing the photographs for print and display.  Materials included a brochure, a poster, exhibition display graphics, the photo captions, large form prints for the windows of the exhibition and giant round 4m² displays for the Powerscourt Centre.

The exhibition’s run in Dublin was extremely successful, attracting a large number of visitors and garnering very positive press coverage, including a feature on RTE News.  You can see the photographs that appeared in the exhibition on the Oxfam Ireland website.

Date created: March 2008

Web Address: www.oxfamireland.org/sleeveface

About the Project: For a brief few shining weeks in March, I was the official Sleeveface™ photographer of Oxfam Ireland, and yea verily, I was quite good at it. Some of these pictures are photos that I took to illustrate the concept of Sleeveface™ for our ClearURMusic Month competition, and some are photos that I took at a booth we set up at a DJ Shadow gig in the Amabassador. All the records pictured are from Oxfam shops, which are the best ever source of eclectic vinyl, believe me. Big thanks to Sleeveface.com for their help with the project.

These images are used in a not-for-profit capacity, but if any copyright holders are unhappy with them appearing here, please email me and I’ll remove them immediately: hello [at] jeanobrien.com.