
on your wall
Hook Head, Co. Wexford
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The tower dates back over 800 years. Over 800 years, and it's still doing the same job it was built for. Just with better bulbs! That's what gets me about Hook Head. It looks like any other operational light station with its bold black and white bands and modern optics, but the structure beneath that paint is genuinely medieval.
I made this photograph on an evening when cloud was building from the southwest and the sea was rough, waves breaking hard over the rocks in the foreground. The wind was constant and the light kept breaking through in patches, dancing across the water's surface in a way that's particular to this stretch of the Wexford coast. Not comfortable conditions for standing around with a tripod, but exactly the conditions that make a place like this come alive.
I had the black and white conversion in mind from the start. The tonal range in that sky, the texture in the rock, white water against dark stone. It was always going to work in monochrome. I set up wide to capture the full sweep of the headland and that enormous cloudscape, then watched and waited for the moment when everything aligned.
What fascinates me is how dangerous this coastline must have been before that light existed. The rocks are brutal, the currents unforgiving. Centuries of mariners depended on that tower. A remarkable piece of history hiding in plain sight.
Every print from Exhibition size up ships free to Ireland, the UK and Europe. Studio prints and books carry a small charge. You pay one delivery charge per order. If it includes a print from Exhibition size up, that rate covers everything in it. Outside Europe, each rate covers up to two prints from Exhibition size up, or up to four Studio prints and books. Larger orders pay the rate again for each further two large prints, or each further four smaller pieces.
- Studio prints & books: €10 Ireland, €20 UK and Europe, €30 US and Canada, €40 rest of the world
- Exhibition size and up: free to Ireland, the UK and Europe, €50 US and Canada, €100 rest of the world
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We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. The estimated delivery date for your address is shown on each print's page: the time it takes to make the print, plus the courier's time to you.
We aim to get prints out as quickly as possible, so we would expect and hope that you would receive them earlier than the above timeframes. If you have a particular need to get a print quickly, please let us know in the order notes and we'll prioritize it for you, or you can email us at info@petercox.ie.
Prints are well-packaged and in the unlikely event that it arrives damaged, we'll send a replacement free of charge.
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