Mick Ryan
is a graduate in Fine Art of the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. He lives in Shanghai, China, with his wife and daughter where he runs a very successful photography studio. He has developed an international reputation as an art photographer alongside a highly regarded commercial practice. He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and the Adobe Photography Directory. In 2007 he was a finalist in the American Photo magazine’s Image of the Year competition and he was named as Photographer of the Year by the Shanghai Daily. In 2008 he was named as Still Life Photographer of the Year and Portrait Photographer of the Year in the Black and White Photography magazine based in the United Kingdom. His work has been exhibited widely and recent exhibitions include the 2008 Royal Photographic Society Members’ Exhibition, a joint exhibition at 3 on the Bund, Shanghai (2008) and the International Projected Image Exhibition which was organised by the the Royal Photographic Society and toured throughout the United Kingdom in 2007. ‘Fables’ 2008 was his first exhibition in Ireland. This was followed with a major one person exhibition in the Don Gallery, Shanghai.
