More art, this time using a camera, is unveiled at the Dublin Photographic Centre on Lower Camden Street.
Tony G. Murray's collection of black and white photographs is helping to raise money for the Aisling Project, which was set up by Caroline Casey, the Irish woman who has become the third female mahout (elephant handler) in India following her four-month odyssey around the subcontinent. Her aim is to raise money for the National Council for the Blind, Sight Savers International and the protection of the Asian elephant.
Together, she and Murray hope to raise £1,000. Elegant in a black dress with a pink zari draped over her shoulder, Casey says Bhadra, her own elephant, is doing very well.
Her mother, Valerie Casey, who walks to raise money for charity, is off to Vietnam in November.
Ann Harper, a banker and another fund-raiser is here too. She is travelling to Gambia shortly with a group of school-goers to help raise awareness and funds. Travel, walking, we have to sit down.
As for the photographs, Paul Stanley, of the Dublin Camera Club, which has 250 members, says the move to digital is on. Murray himself is pleased with the turn-out. It's his first solo exhibition in the city. His two young daughters, Emily (6) and Louise (4), are at home in Naas along with their younger sister Karen (1). Only their mother, Denise Murray, a biochemist, is here.
The photographer's favourite image is of his two young daughters walking along a sunny boreen as two elderly women walking on the other side glance across at them. It is old age looking across at youth. He took the picture took two years ago in Sneem, Co Kerry. It's entitled Time Passing.
And so it does.