Tommy Don grade 3 Yo Yo what up - word! Obviously this sensitive portrait was taken before my gangster rapper days. At this point in my career I was working on a robust "street cred", moving bricks of product and trying to hit the damn baseball off of the "T". Other important pursuits during this time included my early research notes on the novels of Proust (later turned into a 12 volume set, translated from the latin I originally penned it in), grilled cheese sandwiches and Campbells tomato soup (we were poor) and the b/w t.v. series "The Lone Ranger". My favorite quote from the series is when Tonto and the Lone Ranger find themselves surrounded by hostile Indians and the Lone Ranger says "Looks like we are in hot water, old friend..." Tonto reponds "What's this 'friend' shit, white-man..."
I have been shooting photographs heavily since I was 17 years old. I had become a United States foreign exchange student to Norway through an academic Rotary placement. I lived for a year in Brandbu, Hadeland (Heia Norge, Heia Olav) and travelled extensively through europe and north africa. Through college in Oklahoma I worked as a photojournalist ( my major was visual art- theory, history and design). I then went into the field as a commercial people photographer.
I worked a lot in the darkroom and with film but now I’m almost exclusively digital. I have several professional digital capture cameras and customize different digital workflows for different clients and art directors. I have very talented people I work with, including photo assistants, digital technicians, hair and make up artists, wardrobe stylists, producers, etc. I have many diverse clients and thoroughly enjoy the people and relationships I have and continue to maintain.
My main goal wih photography is to work hard and make enough money to buy a large airplane with a small staff. It’d be a live/work airplane with regular deliveries so that it wouldn’t ever have to land.
my website of portfolios: www.thomasfahey.com
Growing up in a ranch-style, suburban tract house provided a lot of opportunities to punish evil-doers
Covering Nascar for an advertising client-
At a Mavericks game in Dallas with Brian Dec 2008
Shooting In London/ Hampton Court May 2009 with Assistant Harry Dunn
word to the Clark Howard Fast Forward many years later and I’m rolling with one Super Down Gangster named Clark Howard. He really helped this poor little pimp navigate the streets- you can check his info out athttp://clarkhoward.com/ Listen to what this guy says, all the time.He’s the real deal. This was a quick polaroid from when I shot him for the cover of Atlanta magazine.
OCTOBER 2009 on set (lighting test) Dallas, Texas:
I have an uncommon last name, and sometimes people ask me what it is or where it comes from. It is an older Irish name rooted in Gaelic. My family (paternal) is Irish Catholic lineage though I choose not belong to a church. Here is some more inf o on Fahey, with the coat of arms to the right. This is from the heraldry site http://www.araltas.com/.Ó FathaighFahy or Fahey is almost exclusively a County Galway name, though of course it is also to be found in the areas bordering that county, such as north Tipperary and in Dublin. A sept of the Uí Maine, the centre of their patrimony, which they held as proprietors up to the time of the Cromwellian upheaval in the mid-seventeenth century and where most of them still dwell, is Loughrea in the south of the county: their territory was known as Pobal Mhuintir Uí Fhathaigh, i.e. the country inhabited by the Fahys. There is a place the modern name of which is Fahysvillage. The name is numerous in the area of Tipperary in the 17th - 19th centuries. Fahy is Ó Fathaigh in Irish. In some places this is anglicised Vahey instead of Fahey, and occasionally Fay which, however, is a distinct surname except in some rare instances in County Galway. The name Green has been used as a synonym for Fahy, a good example of the not uncommon absurd mistranslation of Irish names into English - the Irish word faithche, pronounced Fahy, means a green or a lawn. The obvious derivation from fathach, a giant, genitive fathaigh, is not acceptable, the name being, it is stated, derived from fothadh, a foundation.
Some other Fahey’s:
1)Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey on 10 September 1958) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister.
“I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.”Quotation of Siobhan Fahey
2)Jeffrey David Fahey (born November 29, 1952) is an American film and television actor. See his information at the IMDB page, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001194/.
3)John Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument. In 2003, he was ranked 35th in Rolling Stone’s “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. See his info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fahey_(musician)
“As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent.”Quotation of John Fahey
on an editorial shoot March 2009 with Bill and Brent from rock group Mastodon
2 little irish girls ages 8 an10. My aunts Donna and Frances Fahey.
At the Scottish Highland festival
