Edge of Light

Walking Keem Bay and Keel Beach with his family opened his photographic eye to the western light. Back in Monaghan his amateur interests grew and after many summers visiting Achill, in 1989 Sean and Margaret Cannon established the Western Light Art Gallery. Across the arc of his photographic life Sean Cannon brings you Achill Island in its many moods through this intimate collection of images specially chosen to celebrate 30 years of photography exhibited in the Western Light Art Gallery. With a mixture of images in both black and white and colour, this selection includes some of his most loved and celebrated images, illustrating the fragile beauty of the photographers island home.