We Make the Path by Walking

Paul Gaffney is a Dublin-based artist who has recently completed an MFA in Photography at the University of Ulster in Belfast.

Gaffney was selected for the 2013 PhotoIreland Festival’s New Irish Works, a series of solo and group exhibitions which showcased twenty five contemporary Irish and Irish-based photographers, and was also chosen by Brian Griffin for an Artist of the Day solo show at Flowers Gallery in London. His work has been included in various groups shows throughout Ireland, the UK, South Africa and Italy.

His self-published book, We Make the Path by Walking, has been nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the 6th International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany, and was shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography.