Kevin Goss-Ross

Brand New playing Vicar Street on Tuesday. Shot for Goldenplec.com. 

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Seamus Clancy: magnificently ginger bearded account executive at the mighty Thinkhouse and Lee Stinton: Ex goth, stylist and hair genius at Brown Sugar Hair & Beauty. Also pictured: Logan the drama queen Chihuahua and his friend Ellie.

Huge thank yous to everyone who came through to ‪#‎ThinkhouseXSeries‬ - my exhibition/colab with the majestic Thinkhouse on Friday. As much as I hate it when you weasels spill your happy gratitudes all over social media, I have to gush forth a bit myself. It was my first big solo exhibition in Ireland and I'm delighted with the way it all turned out. For everyone who came and everyone who celebrated afterwards thank you. To everyone who modelled/assisted/whatever and who's friendships I mercilessly abused to get this project done thank you. Purity Zinhle Mkhize thanks for letting us paint your boobs gold. Werner Van Goss-ross & Yoraya Nydoo for the help, video and the locations. Lorcan, Sarah, James Cross, Seamus Clancy and everyone who modelled for this. Tyrone Bradley for letting me use your car, Jarlath for videoing the chaos and Clare Aherne for art directing like a fucking champ. You're all the best.

In anticipation of going to Oppikoppi again this year I looked through the images from the first ever year I thought it was a good idea to take a softbox and a light and walk around in the worst working conditions known to man taking portraits. Thorns, dust, hangovers, sun and people in a state they only ever achieve at Oppikoppi. This was back in 2011, and I was camping in Mordor with my brother Werner and Erin Wulfsohn, who was my lighting assistant on this excursion. I've been doing it ever since.

Holy hell! The Oppikoppi Festival demon has deemed me worthy to taste it's sweet dust again this year. It's not long now before I join my dirty, sweaty friends amongst the thorns. Who else is making the trek?

I did this eery band promo picture for my friends in Not Monsters recently.

Location scouting for a project which is finding a hard time getting on it's feet. A gorgeous day in gorgeous Meath. Very Windows XP.

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Happy St. Patricks Day. Now look at this dog. 

The beauty of this country is baffling. We need to get out of the city more. Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Fuji x100s.

Commute. 

I don't normally do team shots after shoots but we had some real biblical fabric. Myself and two thirds of Third Mind Design, along with the best assistant ever. Featuring post shoot silliness and the dodgy envelope flag/barndoor. www.kevingoss-ross.com

How do you know that spring has sprung in Dublin? Daffodils? Baby animals? Blooms? Nope. You know it's spring when it snows.

The best part of being a photographer is the incredible array of interesting people and scenes my job exposes me to. Towards the end of last year I was asked to cover the Eirtakon convention in Croke Park. It was my first cosplay experience... and I'm still a bit confused.

Also, who's hand is that?

My dad turned 51 today, and he's the fucking best. I was a real asshole growing up (yes, even more than now) but him and my mom parented the hell out of me and made me the upstanding tax paying sucker that I am today. He always encouraged me to boss dodge, saturating my brain with Dilbert cartoons and teaching me that the person in charge is usually in charge purely because their incompetency does less damage in management. I've been terrified of employment/bosses ever since. Thanks dad. His name is, in a very Afrikaans fashion, the same as mine and it's the one thing I wish he'd done differently. This is from the last time we spent time together in Hluhluwe Game reserve in 2013. With us my mom and a token Irish.