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The Press Photographers Association of Ireland award winning photographs for 2006 are now on show in the Gallery of Photography in Temple Bar. Personally I love press photography. I feel it can be one of the truest forms of photography since a photographer covering a breaking news story rarely gets to plan, layout and stage photographs as they can in a studio. It’s all a matter of taste I suppose. Sure some amount of staging does take place and Photoshop is a wonderful tool, but I still get absorbed in the drama of press photographs.

Amoung the collection were a several photographs from last years Dublin riots, an interesting and I thought telling photograph from Charlie Haugheys funeral, a cringe worthy photograph of a horse with a broken leg and the compulsory collection of snaps from the Ryder Cup.

This exhibit is well worth a visit, admission is free and it runs from Feb 21st to March 4th.