About Dave Walsh

Dave Walsh makes photographs that explore the complicated relationship between humans and our planet’s ecosystem. Usually happiest in the middle of some freezing Arctic wilderness, he occasionally roams free in polite society and the urban jungle, and is for available for commission in any of those environments.

Dave’s photographs have been used by the Irish Labour party, British Airways, The Financial Times, Nature, the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords, Greenpeace International, The International Polar Foundation, New Scientist, The Smithsonian, Sierra magazine, BBC Wildlife magazine, I Count – Stop Climate Chaos, The UK’s National Theatre, The Clare People (Ireland), Conde Naste Traveller, Forbes, Fortean Times and many others, including publishers. He also has written for several newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times and Mare magazine (Germany), and is the author of two books, Haunted Dublin, and A Load of Blather.

Representation: Millennium Images.

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Exhibitions:
Parallel Worlds, Solo Exhibition, October 2007, The Factory, Sligo
Stand up for Photojournalism, National Union of Journalists (touring) 2009, UK
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009, toured through UK and Ireland in 2009/2010
MobFORMAT 2011, International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, photograph of “Men Stepping out of a Forest” in Barentsburg
Shortlisted for Extreme Environment Photographic Competition 2011, Hobart, Tasmania: Ribbed Iceberg, Kangerdlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland. More on this in the blog entry… . Shortlisted images were exhibited in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, May 2011.