Andrew Catlin's work has been widely published, and is included in numerous collections, books, exhibitions and archives.
12 Facts About Andrew Catlin
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Andrew Catlin's work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Andrew Catlin's childhood was spent in London in the 1960s during a period of great transformation and social change.
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In 1978, Andrew Catlin was awarded the Prince Philip Prize for Zoology by the Zoological Society of London for a research project completed while at school.
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Andrew Catlin's work appeared on record sleeves, books and magazine covers.
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Andrew Catlin was one of the photographers chosen to document the Live Aid concert in 1985 and was the largest single contributor to the subsequent exhibition and book.
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Andrew Catlin was Director of Photography for Elements of Mine, a film by Egyptian director Khaled El Hagar which was awarded First Prize in the Toronto Moving Pictures Festival.
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Andrew Catlin's matrix suggests a unique syntax, of which the visual elements have been formed partly coincidentally - the subject's actions - and partly in a controllable way - the photographer's decisions.
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Whereas the likes of Blossfeldt and the Bechers created visual typologies, arranging plants and industrial water towers respectively in grids that echo the natural and man-made sameness of their subjects, Andrew Catlin has used the grid format to render a series of what he calls "critical" moments.
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Andrew Catlin is obsessive, meticulous and rigorous, but a quiet, unobtrusive observer of the everyday sublime.
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What's so extraordinary about the book is that its author, photographer Andrew Catlin, is an Englishman, who knew nothing about Irish history at the outset.
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Andrew Catlin's photography is held in major collections and archives worldwide, ranging from The National Portrait Gallery in London to the Schwules Museum in Berlin.