Documentary Photographer Colm Pierce
Biography
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.
Accolades
Colm has the capacity to capture something intrinsic to the human condition—the capacity to triumph over that adversity. In the childish eyes of mucky faces he sees something else, a determination to overcome.
I was gripped by Colm's portrayals of inner city Dublin life, all at once arresting, confronting, lived in, vulnerable, tangible, and real. The character, texture and poeticism in the minutiae of his work magnifying an entire life.
Colm Pierce's photography has documented and captured a fabric of Dublin that is now gone; but remains forever in its people and art such as Colm's work.
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