It’s here! Hot off the press — Cork University Press, published September 4, 2012. My copy arrived today, and at over 700 pages, it is HEFTY.

http://www.greatirishfamine.ie

I was surprised to know I’d receive a copy since I’d fully expected my photos to be tiny and hard to find amongst all the others in the section, but was I ever wrong! Here’s a full spread with one of my Toronto photos, taken in bitter cold on January 4, 2009.

The print is obscured by the snow, but my name is there:

And then there is a large landscape photo of the Toronto Irish Famine Memorial, taken more than a year later on February 21, 2010, which takes up more than half a page:

I’m also surprised they used this photo of the Irish Famine Memorial in New York City instead of this one taken last Christmas, but I suppose it’s meant to show the quotations, which most people probably don’t photograph.

In any case, I’m chuffed the photographs are larger than I’d expected and I’m especially chuffed they sent me a copy of this comprehensive atlas. It’s large format hardcover and weighs a tonne (OK, maybe five kilos or so) — definitely not transit reading material, but if you enjoy geography and/or history you will enjoy browsing this tome. I shot some of these earlier photos nearly four years ago, but I’m pleased with how they look in print. Also, I take pride in my stubbornness to brave the icy winter winds off the lake to make these photographs in a season that turned out to be most fitting for the atlas.