Kieran is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times magazine, New York Times and various NGO’s across the globe and is represented by Panos pictures in London.
After completing his dissertation on primates in central Africa, he began work in Scotland as a news photographer, becoming staff at the renowned Herald newspaper group. His natural history work of Zambia’s epic fruit bat migration gained him a World Press Photo award using money from the UK & Ireland Picture Editor’s Young Photographer of the year bursary.
As a freelance, Kieran undertakes commissions across the world for clients.
Awards:
1) Best of Photojournalism 2010 Honourable mention International News
2) The Press Photographer’s Year (UK) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 – Final Edit & Book
3) World Press Photo 2006 – 1st Prize Nature Story
4) University of Missouri (USA) 2006 Emerging Photojournalist Scholarship
5) UK and Ireland Picture Editors 2005 – Young Photographer of the Year
6) Scottish Press Photo Awards 2007 – Features Photographer of the Year