My old friend Shane MacThomáis died recently and while searching through my archive for pictures of Shane, I rediscovered these photographs of a commemoration parade for 25th year anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes.
The event was held in West Belfast, during the summer of 2006, and as Shane had to travel up for work, I went along for the trip, hoping to make a few interesting images. I was studying in Newport at the time and I was using a medium format camera with a waist level view finder. It's my favourite way of looking at the world.
As Shane was off networking and politicking I scratched around looking for picture opportunities, trying my best to be unobtrusive. These four are what I took home from the trip.
