Kieran started out small. He liked pbj's, the beach, dogs, kick-the-can with friends, and kept a favorite Teddy further into preadolescence than he'd probably like to admit. He called thunder "flunder." How cute is that?
As he grew, he took a liking to music and started playing the drums. Played his first gig at fifteen; his dad had to drive him. He went on to study Music Production & Engineering at the Berklee College of Music and make records as an audio engineer and producer for many years. You might even have some records he worked on. You'll still find him behind the kit a couple nights a month at his favorite pub.
In 2006 Kieran bought a Holga to take along on a family vacation and was immediately hooked. He put roll after roll of film through that plastic, leaky, toy camera and started acquiring other medium format cameras as well. A Minolta Autocord here, a Rolleiflex SL66 there… and, of course, the GOAT: a beloved Pentax 6x7. Kieran would actually carry that huge, medium format beast around with him day in, day out, with its guillotine-like shutter, while running errands and whatnot.
What a dork.
Eventually, it turned into his job. Do what you love, right?
Nowadays he shoots modern digital cameras with all the bells and whistles. While he loves gear and cherishes the process, what interests Kieran most about what we do here at what he calls “the intersection of art, tech, and commerce,” is the emotional component. The fact we’re making pictures for a reason; to move people. Whether to think, or to rejoice, or recoil, or to just buy something, please. The same reason they make records. Or ads. Or movies, or plays, or poems.
Kieran still likes dogs. So much so, he’ll roll down his window to yell, “that’s a fine lookin’ dog!” at a complete stranger.
Call him crazy.
He's slowly learning Russian from the inside out from his beautiful matryoshka, Elena, and spends his time cooking, loving, thinking too much, and playing.