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Marc O’Sullivan

Email: marc@marcosullivan.ie
Phone: 0872624540
Website: http://www.marcosullivan.ie/

SELECTED WORKS

SHORTLISTED - Arts and Entertainment - 2024
SIBLING SOUNDS

Sister and brother, Faustina on Viola and Faith on double bass from the Pesto Players, pictured practicing for the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras Annual Festival of Youth Orchestras at the National Concert Hall.

SHORTLISTED - Arts and Entertainment - 2023
SUPPORT ACT

Young ballet dancers from the Irish National Youth Ballet pictured at a photocall during rehearsals for The Nutcracker.

SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2023
DRAGONFLY

A dragonfly in flight over the River Camac in Kilmainham.

SHORTLISTED - Daily Life & People - 2023
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR!

Tired tourists catch a nap on a bench in Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green.

1ST PLACE - Daily Life & People - 2022
WATCHING

A child stares at a drone at a drive-in cinema screening at Leopardstown, Dublin.

Shortlisted - Daily Life & People - 2022
FIRST OF MANY

A mass vaccination centre pictured being set up by the HSE at DCU Dublin.

SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2021
THAT SINKING FEELING

Peter O’Brien at Sandymount Strand, Dublin, to launch One Future, a new campaign group for faster and fairer climate action.

SHORTLISTED - Reportage - 2021
HOPE IS HERE!

79-year-old Annie Lynch is the first person in Ireland to receive the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.

1ST PLACE - Daily Life & People - 2020
SUMMER SHOWER

A torrential summer rain shower on Abbey Street, Dublin

2ND PLACE - Daily Life & People - 2020
PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT PRESSURE

Brothers Robbie (6) and Darragh Kelly (8), from Lucan, try to get a good picture of President Michael D. Higgins at the opening of FLAC’s new head office

SHORTLISTED - Portrait - 2020
MOLLY

Fiona Stout as Molly Bloom at the opening of the Museum of Irish Literature in the historic setting of UCD Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

2ND PLACE - Nature & The Environment - 2020
DROPS

Raindrops resting on moss on a city wall

SHORTLISTED - Daily Life & People - 2019
MEADOW LARKS

Alicia Hegarty (8) and Olive Hegarty (4), from Skerries, pictured enjoying the meadow at Farmleigh during an Africa Day event

SHORTLISTED - Portrait - 2019
ERICA

Portrait of musician Erica Cody

1ST PLACE - Nature & The Environment - 2013
ANTLER SUNSET

A deer is silhouetted by the setting sun in Dublin's Phoenix Park

1ST PLACE - Arts and Entertainment - 2013
DUST DANCER

Dancer Emmanuella Salako takes flight

3RD PLACE - Daily Life & People - 2014
ONE GIRL AND HER DOG

A little girl and her dog enjoying the last of the lovely summer evenings in the War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge, Dublin

1ST PLACE - Features - 2009
PRESIDENTIAL EXCLAMATION!

President Mary McAleese makes a speech at the opening of a newly refurbished office

3RD PLACE - Reportage - 2012
IN THE ORBIT OF PLANET JEDWARD

The hardest working showbiz act in the world - Jedward. From interviews first thing in the morning, to photocalls and concerts, their unboundless energy, enthusiasm and sense of fun is absolutely infectious. Having entered Planet Jedward's orbit with a cynical frown I was spun out that evening feeling strangely happy and giddy with huge admiration for the young twins from Lucan.

3RD PLACE - Daily Life & People - 2013
AVALANCHE OF FUN

Kids having fun on an inflatable slide at St.Patrick's Hospital fun day

SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2018
LOVE BIRDS

Birds in Dublin's Phoenix Park pictured against the moonlight

SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2017
DOWN FOR THE NIGHT

Deer settle down for the evening in the Phoenix Park Dublin

SHORTLISTED - Arts and Entertainment - 2017
HULA HULA HULA

Fitness Hula Hooper Mairéad Collins photographed at Sandymount Beach

SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2017
SHOWER

A heavy rain shower over Poolbeg in Dublin as seen from Dun Loaghaire

SHORTLISTED - Daily Life & People - 2015
POLAR DISORDER

The polar bear mascot for Special Olympics Ireland’s polar plunge fundraising initiative is chased down Clogherhead beach by participating Gardaí

SHORTLISTED - Daily Life & People - 2014
AND BREATHE

Aleisha Smith and Elisha Stanley, both eight-years-old, have some fun during a break from modelling First Holy Communion dresses

SHORTLISTED - Portrait - 2013
NOWHERE TO HIDE

Cage Fighter Amanda English exuding calm and confidence pictured before a bout

SHORTLISTED - Portrait - 2012
SIR BOB BY WINDOW LIGHT

Bob Geldoff looks relaxed even though he is faced by a wall of photographers at the opening of Dublin Comtemporary arts exhibition

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SHORTLISTED - Nature & The Environment - 2012
SUNRISE OVER THE POLES

A cyclist pictured at sunrise at the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin

SHORTLISTED - Individual Study - 2008
THE MAIN DISCOURSE

Chef Marco Pierre White speaking at a restaurant in Dublin.

SHORTLISTED - Portrait - 2012
THE VEILED LADY

Portrait of singer song writer Sarah Gleeson

SHORTLISTED - Features - 2006
PLANK TONNE

A worker starts clearing a massive algae bloom, from the dock in the IFSC, Dublin, with a plank

SHORTLISTED - Sports Feature - 2006
SPLASH DOWN

Diving practice at the National Aquatic Centre, at Abbottstown.

Daily Life
UNTITLED

Contestants in the 'best-dressed lady' competition line up during the Irish Derby meeting at The Curragh, Co Kildare, in June 2004

News and Politics
UNTITLED

Joe Costello of the Labour Party is hoisted by supporters celebrating his re-election to Dáil Éireann at the vote count in the RDS, Dublin, in May 2002