BIOGRAPHY

For over half a century Fionnbar Callanan has viewed the sporting and wider world through the lens of a camera. His obsession with sporting events and sporting people has brought him both around the world and to the end of his street.

World record holders and some who may well be running still have all on occasion caught his eye. As an international athlete, Fionnbar came to recognise the seminal moments which mark out the career of all sportsmen and women.

Through his camera, he continued to share in these moments long past the end of his own athletic career. In time, he came to recognise and capture exceptional moments and people in the non-sporting world. In the process Fionnbar has amassed a vast and wide ranging collection of unique photographs from around Ireland and the world.

From 1954, Fionnbar Callanan wrote on sports for the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, the Irish Press and for Radio Éireann(RTE). His photographs have appeared regularly at home and abroad in newspapers, magazines, sports books and even on stamps. Fionnbar Callanan is Honourary Secretary of the Irish Association of Sports Journalists and his photographs are syndicated throughout the world by the international agency, Camera Press.