Before Sunday

The photographs are like black and white time machines that bring back the desolation and danger of the Troubles. The images have a documentary accuracy, but it is the aura of melancholy witness that marks them as the work of Seán Hillen.�?� �?? Seamus Heaney

�??Striking, haunting sometimes bleakly beautiful: a record of historical importance but also much more.�?� Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford.

Melancholy Witness is the published collection of the images of Sean Hillen�??s lauded exhibition of photography, documenting the years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Combining personality with documentary history, what emerges is a powerful and compelling story of unrest, beauty and change.