Tuesday 23 November 2021
Peter Laban photographs from the 1990s
Peter Laban is the ITMA Photographer-in-residence for 2021. Over the course of the past year Peter has been preparing his extensive photographic collection for donation to ITMA. He has been scanning negatives, identifying people and places, and carefully selecting images for the ITMA website.
In this blog Peter reflects on some of the recent images that he has donated to ITMA.
More photographs from Peter are available at the following links:.

Seán McNamara ; Mick Coyne / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban

Jackie Daly / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban

The piper's hands = Tommy Kearney / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban
I was talking to Tommy Kearney in the reedmaking workshops one Willie week. He was always fiddling with the reeds. He played a tune when he was happy enough with them. I 'saw' my picture and popped the 105 mm lens on the camera.

Robbie Hannan with his son / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban

Denis Brooks / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban

Paddy Canny / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban
A concert was organised for the Merriman Summer School. It was a few weeks after Junior Crehan's funeral and he was still on the posters. Ciarán Mac Mathúna was presiding over the night. I remember Chris Droney, Tommy McCarthy, Bríd O Donohue, Helen Hayes, Miriam Collins, Peter O'Loughlin, Paddy Canny, PJ Hayes and Maureen O'Gorman playing. It was a great night.

Úna Grogan ; Dympna O'Sullivan ; Mick Mulcahy ; Gerdie Commane ; Louise Mulcahy / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban

Geoff Wooff ; Máire Ní Ghráda / Peter Laban
© Peter Laban