Harry Thuillier Jnr was born in Dublin in 1964 and studied photography in Memphis College of Art and completed a BA in Fine Art Photography in Boston before studying under Jerry Uellsmann in Florida.

He returned to Ireland in 1989. His subject matter was noted for its particular darkness, covering such subjects as ancient skulls, limbs decorated with opium pods and flowering nudes.

However it wasn't long before his exhibitions received extremely favourable reviews both here and abroad, and his work was used in magazines, books and album covers. While photographing a crowd of street punks in Dublin one December night in 1990, Thuillier was attacked with a broken bottle and, despite an eight-hour operation, lost 80% vision in his photographic eye.

Already tired of the commercial world, the need to express his own dreams became even more important. The eye injury forced him to investigate other means of expression through photography and it was during his recuperation that he began working with large-format cameras. This led him to study the expensive and difficult process of platinum/palladium development, a process largely forgotten by most modern day photographers. He became one of only a handful of people throughout the world who worked with this process and it would soon set him apart from other photographers to become one of Ireland’s leading exponents of fine art photography until his unexpected and death in Milan in December 1997