Jaime Coon: Skin + Bones in Ireland - The Gallery
Photography by BP Fallon

THE STORY

A while ago as the crow flies and the eagle soars and the ducks quack, Jaime Coon flies from New York to DJ in Ireland at DeathDiscoDublin#3. There, she turntables a non-stop rockin' hour of Ramones hits and Ramones rarities as her tribute to Joey and Dee Dee RIP. Everyone rocks out gloriously.

There in Ireland, Jaime and BP Fallon continue their on-going photographic collaboration. Photographer and UltraModel are driving south with the CD player blaring everything from Hank Williams to Johnny Thunders to Primal Scream.

Stopping awhile in County Wicklow, in Glendalough, tarrying in the sacred graveyard of the seven churches... further south, as south as you can go, and near Clonakilty in County Cork our duo find themselves in Noel Redding's garden, the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix everywhere and it's calm on the swing... via their friends at Connolly's Of Leap - very cool music venue in the middle of nowhere - Fallon and Coon stay at Mona Best's eccentric and enchanting guest house in Skibbereen, creating photographs in the drawing-room and in two bedrooms, the Blue Room and the Pink Room; beautiful, a gift from unknown angels... our heroes head west to the wind-swept timelessness of the Beara Peninsula that thrusts itself out into the wild Atlantic Ocean, drive over the Caho Mountains through Healy Pass and into the mysteries of County Kerry and the magic of Valentia Island and then eight and a half miles more out to sea to the island of Skellig Michael, 600 steps carved out of rock that rise into the mists in this stairway to heaven where once monks levitated as the salt-waves lashed them...

BP and Jaime venture onwards and meet five cows... and a goat. And a headless woman. Join them...

BP & Jaime would like to thank: Boo, Patsy & Danny Dennehy, Barney & Hedge, The Glendalough Hotel, Between The Seams in Clonakilty [fab clothes!], Joe King Carrasco, Noel Redding RIP, Tim Goulding, Roger Woolman, Paul Murphy, Connolly's Of Leap, Robin & Orphan Annie near Allihies, Chris & Steff & Callan near Cloghane, DJ in O'Driscoll's in Caherciveen, the hitch-hikers from Castlefreke, Eileen in the pub in Portmagee and Pat Joe Murphy and his boat Shelluna... the Skellig islands peopled by puffins, the island of Valencia in The Pink House under the full moon... and Mona Best and her amazing guest house The Bridge House in Skibbereen, West Cork. Thank you.

BP used Fuji Finepix S602 Zoom and accessories.