IAN Paisley posing like his hero Edward Carson, an RUC patrol in Co Tyrone and the funeral of a teenager killed by undercover soldiers have all been captured in a a new book of photographs and linked poems.
Veteran photographer Bobbie Hanvey, whose work dates back more than four decades, last night launched a book in Belfast which has been co-authored with his son Steafán.
'Reconstructions' includes 40 years of photos, dating from the 1970s.
Striking images of an arson attack at Hugh J O'Boyle's hardware shop in Downpatrick, Co Down, in 1975 and a march by Official IRA women in the same town in 1974 are included along with a portrait of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
Each photo has an associated poem written by Steafán, a singer-songwriter.
In the book's foreword, Steafán said he remembers his father developing the photographs at home.
"I pegged many of them on the drying-line myself and often had a hand in the framing before they took up residency on the walls of their home," he said.
He said his father has likened taking photographs to a sniper pulling a trigger.
"You look through the camera the same way a sniper looks through a gun," Bobbie Hanvey said.
"You press the shutter, he presses the trigger.
"He hopes to get something. I don't think there's much else involved."
Born in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh, Bobbie Hanvey worked as a psychiatric nurse in the 1960s and early 1970s before becoming a photographer.
Now living in Downpatrick, Co Down, he also hosted The Rambling Man, a programme on Downtown Radio, for 36 years.
'Reconstructions' was launched at No Alibis bookshop in Belfast last night.
A separate launch will be held at Poetry Ireland in Dublin tonight.
The book will be published on November 12.
