Ken Finegan, ARPS, BA (Hons), MFA,

Irish photographer Ken Finegan was born in 1959. His love of photography started while working in Dublin. In 1985 Ken joined the Drogheda Independent newspaper group as staff photographer and within a few years started his own company where he gained experience in a wide variety of photographic fields. 2005 saw Ken enter a phase when he became an educator in photography at O'Fiaich Institute of Further Education where he is course co-ordinator for the Photographic Studies course and changed the focus of his practice to fine art after successfully completing a BA (Hons) in Photography at the West Wales School of the Arts, University of Glamorgan.

Ken has completed his current studies at the University of Ulster, York Street Campus, Belfast (January 2012) with an MFA in Photography studying under Professor Paul Seawright, Donovan Wylie, Professor Terence Wright and Dr. Alastair Herron.

Images from Ken's MFA project “Club Life” were published in the “Creating Excellence in Dementia Care, A Research Review for Ireland's National Dementia Strategy” January 2012 by Associate Professor Suzanne Cahill, Trinity College and the DSIDC, St. James' Hospital, Dublin, Professor Eamonn O'Shea, NUI Galway and Maria Pierce, Trinity College, Dublin.

Five of the images from Tír na nÓg were selected for “Open Here” as part of the HPF 2010 Festival (Hereford Photography Festival) in November 2010. The project “Tír na nÓg“ involving the pupils of St. Nicholas' National School, Dundalk was his first public exhibition and was exhibited in the Basement Gallery, Dundalk for the month of July 2010.