Dublin, Ireland | 1990
Before the crowds and cafés, it was a quiet place of old streets and older faces. I spent a day walking with my camera—workers laying cobblestones, old buildings leaning into the past, locals going about their lives. A day in the life, just before everything changed.
Ninh Binh, Vietnam | 2024-2025
Nestled between towering limestone karsts and winding rivers, Ninh Binh is a place where history and daily life intertwine. Farmers wade through flooded rice paddies, their hands swift and practiced, planting the next harvest. Fishermen cast their nets in quiet waters, carrying on traditions that have shaped this land for generations.
Sheriff Street, Dublin | 1988-1989
I think the hardest job about this project was the printing. I wasn’t very good at the time so I’d spend ages just trying to get something decent. Nowadays, I don’t think people understand how hard it used to be to print your own work. You really had to want to do it.
Sheriff Street, Dublin | 1988-1989
I really enjoyed walking the streets and taking pictures. All my dole money went on it. My father didn’t understand why I was spending so much money taking and developing all these pictures. He kept saying that they were going to be knocked down.
Colm Gerard Pierce
Colm Pierce is an accomplished documentary photographer. Since first picking up a camera in 1987, he’s travelled extensively throughout his home country of Ireland as well as to various more exotic locations, most notably France and Vietnam.
Over the years Colm has become known for the gritty humanity of his work—even his landscapes—and for his uncommon ability of being able to tell detailed stories without saying a word.
Colm’s work has been featured in such publications as the Guardian, the Irish Times, Elle, Le Point and Micro Hebdo. Today, he regularly posts his work, new and old, on his Facebook and Instagram pages, sells prints from his vast catalogue and runs photography workshops in his adopted home of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Journal
Micro Hebdo Magazine
Loos Prison is one of my “pushed stories”. I’d met a retired teacher who was working in the prison, where the prisoners were learning how to make webpages. I really enjoyed this part of my life in Paris.
Elle Magazine
Serge was an avid photographer too, so everything was in place for the shoot already, and it was fantastic to be able to shoot him in his own studio.
Le Point Magazine
Miyamoto is the world famous creator of Super Mario. This shoot took place in the Hotel Costes swimming pool on Rue Faubourg, Saint Honore in Paris and was a commission from Le Point Magazine.
