Barry Delaney is inspired by the colour, energy and DIY attitude of punk. He fled the grey Dublin of the early 80s, to travel the world and fell in love with film photography. Eked a living doing various manual and technical jobs. Twenty years later, Barry began taking pictures again. It started on the streets of Dublin, his home town, and moved on to other parts of Ireland and across the pond to his second home – America. In 2008, Barry won the TG4 Irish photographer of the 21st Century. Barry has had 4 solo exhibitions in Dublin, whilst also self-publishing three books on Blurb (including Americans Anonymous which this photo essay is based on). Last year he completed a retrospective of his inner city Dublin work in the historic GPO, Dublin. along with his debut Dublin book :-https://www.hitonebooks.ie/stars-and-souls-of-the-liffey
© Barry Delaney