Meet your photographer...

Aoife James is a Cork-based music and event photographer with over a decade of professional experience shooting everything from intimate gigs and corporate functions to large-scale festivals and conventions nationwide. Highly involved in the Irish music scene from a young age, she began organising all-ages shows as a teenager through GroundFloor Productions, providing the debut stage for many of Ireland's top-rated musicians through her Overdrive gigs. After taking an interest in music journalism and concert photography as a result, she decided to pursue a BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media at MTU (CIT) Crawford College of Art and Design in 2017.

Since graduating, Aoife has continued to prioritise the promotion and support of up-and-coming Irish music acts by remaining intricately involved with the scene. She is currently part of the team at Safe Gigs Ireland, who are working to create a zero-tolerance environment for sexual violence, spiking and discrimination in the Irish music and nightlife sectors. She also leads media at Experience Japan's annual Hanami Festival, serving as VIP and Main Stage Photographer and carefully delegating tasks to cohorts of photography/videography volunteers based on portfolio assessments.

Aoife's top mission in life is to showcase that physical disability - particularly limb difference - should never stop someone in their pursuit of photography as a profession. Working with one properly-functional arm as a result of Erb's Palsy, she's figured out ways and means to make things accessible and takes any opportunity to share this advice with others in similar circumstances who aspire to be visual artists. The physical impairment has never negatively impacted her work, but it sure does make her all-the-more ambitious!

The main focus of Aoife's photographic work lies in facial expressions and body language - where you witness a musician truly in their own little world feeling the moment. Hence her slogan - capturing what music means to you.