[1] He won the Northern Ireland Provincial Press Photographer of the Year Award for himself and the Down Recorder newspaper of Downpatrick, County Down, in 1985, 1986, and 1987.
His autobiography, The Mental, describes everyday life in Fermanagh during the 1950s and charts his time as a psychiatric nurse in the Downshire Hospital in Downpatrick during the 1960s.
Other guests have included writers Eugene McCabe, Maurice Leitch, and J. P. Donleavy, as well as soldiers, sailors, and travelling people.
They include Brian Friel, Danny Morrison, David Hammond, Gerry Adams, Sammy Duddy, Seamus Heaney, and others.
His most recent photographic book, The Last Days of the RUC, presents the only historic account[citation needed] of the transition of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.