Kenneth O’Halloran’s project “Fair Trade” captures the flavor of a group of Gaelic nomads with a tradition of gathering on special occasions to trade horses, ponies and other goods. He says women regard the trading fairs “as occasions worth dressing up for, lending a kind of delicacy to the day, a femininity to counterweigh the spit-in-the-hand dealings of the men folk. There is a vibrancy of colour, red hair, freckles and a range of ensembles.”
At PDN:
[Photo © Kenneth O’Halloran]
The photo below this at PDN, of the two brothers sitting on a horse, is featured in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize now showing at the National Portrait Gallery. [£2 entry. If you have the right change, skip past the tickets desk and pay at the exhibition itself.]
O'Halloran's website is here.
Mick Hartley 
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