In 2004, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority launched a photographic initiative aimed at school children and students in the Docklands area.

1200 disposable cameras were given to fledgling photographers with the instructions being to record a snapshot of their immediate environment. One year on and the best efforts from the initiative have been released in an attractive, well-designed book entitled ‘Caught on Camera’.

The photographs produced are like a reflection of the children’s own lives: happy, carefree, spontaneous, joyous, but also thoughtful and poignant in places. The DDDA won an Allianz Business and Arts Award for this initiative.

Overall, the book succeeds in capturing a real sense of what life is like for young people in inner-city Dublin today.

A limited edition of ‘Caught on Camera’ is available from the Dublin Docklands Development Authority offices, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1. Telephone 8183300. Priced €25.