Equal Fashion Magazine Vol 4-2016
Mammatus Clouds over Slieve Martin of The Mourne Mountains on Easter
Sunday 2016
Photographer: Willy Gallagher
Q1. We at Equal Fashion
Magazine are very excited to
hear you are going on a ?Walk
About? with your lens to capture
some of what Éireann has to
offer and whatever comes your
way. It makes us feel very free
and adventurous. Circumstances
keep some of us from travelling
which is a wonderful and
nourishing experience so thank
you very much for letting us
follow you on your journey. Have
you anything in particular you
would like to capture or is the
adventure and not knowing
what?s in front of you the thrill
or, could it be a mixture of both?
A1. I would say for sure it?s going
to be a mixture of both,yes of
course there our places that
spring to mind right away all
over the country,but for me I
don?t want to be limited to what I
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am going to go and capture or
indeed feel the need to go and
follow in the foot steps of all the
others and try to see it though
my eyes,a good friend and
wonderful black and white
photographer Thomas Keeley
said to me once ?Willy, try not to
stand in the spot where you see
a set off foot prints and 3 hole?s
in the ground? so try to be
original. As long as I can do the
place justice and get stuck in
there, you know go talk to the
locals find out about those
hidden gems. If I can pull that off
I will be a happy camper.
Q2. What inspired you to take
the plunge into the unknown?
A2. I think what inspired me the
most to want to take this journey
is on April 28th 2016 I will be 2
years sober and free from an
alcohol and drug problem that
controlled my life for so long and
I could not even imagine how
much my life has changed in that
time,not saying it was easy
because it was not easy at all, but
I needed help and I got it. A
friend of mine Dani Botos who
was always there by my side in
my early recovery said to me one
afternoon just as we were going
to hike up to Slieve Martin in
County Down, do you want to
buy my camera of me, he gave
me a great price for it so I said
YES! And I took it from there. I
have a family that love and
support me and I will be forever
grateful to them for not giving
up on me as I put them through a
lot and I mean a lot. This is
something I want to do for
myself not to try and prove
anything but rather the fact that I
feel that I can do it and to feel
that way after coming through
what I did that?s an amazing