ÉADAOIN CURTIN, PHOTOGRAPHER & COPYWRITER

For path forgers. For loud insisters and quiet resisters. For those who defy the story of who gets to make it. For visibility as a relational act. For meaning makers. For norm-breaking. For power. For celebration. For words and images that make selling easy and honest. 

For those who dare to be seen, exactly as they are.

WHY I DO THIS WORK

I want to help right the wrongs of so many photographers who've done harm, and the wrongs of a marketing industry that has asked people to shrink, perform and produce content that doesn't feel or sound anything like them. I want to give gloriously daring business owners the opportunity to show up fully and easily - with beautiful, compelling photographs that stop the scroll and draw their dream clients in, and with words that match what those clients see when they arrive. No fitting-in photos, no conformative (conformist?) copy. Instead, powerful words and images that attract your truest collaborators.

Truthful communication comes easily when you understand that you have the power to shape how you show up. I do this work because I believe small business owners who are awake and alive to the world have the power to build new ways of being - that 'our businesses can be sites of liberation'*.

My clients are ambitious, values-led business owners working to challenge the status quo; for themselves, their industry and our collective good. Helping them succeed is one of the most exciting things I can imagine. Because when gloriously daring humans are visible, connected and flourishing in their businesses, it ripples out into the world they’re actively working to change. 

*in the words of Bear Hébert

Ready? Learn how we work together.

My work, in photographs and words, is about visibility, identity and what it means to show up fully in your business. Because I believe the people who are awake and alive to the world deserve to be seen doing the work they were made for.

My clients want to be fully visible without being held back by messaging or photos that don't feel like them - so that the right people find them easily, trust them immediately and say yes wholeheartedly.

WHAT I WANT FOR YOU...

I want you to love, love, LOVE your photographs. 

I want you to treat your visibility the way you treat your work - disrupt the narrative, question convention and defy expectations. 

I want you to show up, show off, show your face, show the world — all without feeling like you're putting on a show. 

I want you to have a voice and a visual world that are so deeply, congruently you that they speak for themselves and make selling an easy, mutual yes.

I want you to know that counter-cultural images are beautiful and power is a great look on you. 

I want you to have more than mediocre selfies or photos that are way out of date. 

I want you to dare to be seen and dare your clients to see you; work with you, and make powerful change with you.

THE ORIGIN STORY

In the middle of my first ever English conversation club during my time working in Viet Nam, a gentleman asked me what my name meant. I didn't know, or even if it meant anything at all, but my curiosity was sparked. The first of a million things I learned about myself and gained from my time spent there, was that my name means 'little fire'.

When I came back from my time abroad to a post-crash, mid-recession, Ireland, I experienced a culture shock that I hadn't expected. I was incredibly lost, and in a search for self-enquiry, I found personal branding - a way to ask questions, imagine and create something. And so, Firechild was named.

Then it became Firechild Finery when I sold jewellery and scarves to raise funds for my friend's restaurant business & community outreach in Viet Nam. When I started to share my photos, it became Firechild Photography, and that served me so very well for over a decade. Then, in 2026 as I re-imagined my work and my business, I very nearly left it behind. In my slightly blinkered headlong run into 'new', I almost forgot how much it means and how much of my history it holds. And if you've met me in real life or on the internet streets already, chances are it's what you call me anyway. 

OTHER RANDOM THINGS THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ME

As a first-born daughter in a rural Irish community with very egalitarian parents I'm constantly caught in the good girl/ f**k the patriarchy dichotomy.

I have the word 'truth' in Ogham tattooed down my spine.

My first camera was a Pentax ME Super that's two years older than me.

I grew up shooting film – the first full roll I ever shot was at a family wedding and I forgot to take the lens cap off. 

I learned the craft of photography through shooting hundreds of gigs on Dublin's grunge scene in the 2010s.

The best gig I've ever been to was Skunk Anansie in Glasgow in 2019. (Topped only by the time we went to see them in 2025 and Skin made eye contact with me when she saw my Keffiyeh.)

I drink tea only in times of physical or emotional crisis, with a lot of sugar.

In April & May 2020 I photographed almost 50 people in their own homes via Zoom.(Scroll down to see some)

After my first son was born in 2020, I managed to avoid mirrors for almost a whole year – it was the returning to myself and seeing myself that helped define and refine my 'dare to be seen' framework.

I have had the privilege of learning directly from Tara Prendergast, Kathleen Shannon, Claire Gallagher, Kelly Diels, Kate O'Dwyer, Kristen Kalp, Amanda Grace and Bear Hébert. 

If this feels like the beginning of something, find out how we can work together.