Arthur Fields

Arthur Fields (born Abraham Feldman; 1901–1994) was an Irish street photographer of Ukrainian descent. He took more than 180,000 photographs of pedestrians on the south end of Dublin's O'Connell Bridge, over more than 50 years.

Background and career Fields was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family. His family fled antisemitism in Kiev in 1885, and later settled in Dublin.

Fields originally ran a sound studio where people could make a recording of their own voice, but later began his photography when he bought a box camera. The Man on Bridge project was also a winner of the Arthur Guinness Projects. In December 2014 an exhibition of 3,400 photographs collected for the project was held at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin.

A documentary titled Man On Bridge was produced for RTE and screened at Christmas 2014. The Irish Times called the film a "beautifully constructed, subtly emotional documentary". The documentary was nominated for an IFTA award for Best Documentary Single in 2015.

Two books of Arthur Fields' photographs edited by Ciaran Deeney and David Clarke were published by Colins Press.

Publications

Man on the Bridge: The Photos of Arthur Fields - Man on the Bridge: More Photos By Arthur Fields -