James Carr

Winter in Dublin

To promote Dublin’s huge range of attractions, events, venues and activities on offer during the winter, we created this campaign for Fáilte Ireland with tailored content for November, December and January. The campaign included a 20″ ad for streaming services, TV stings, digital display, print and social ads in all the usual formats for each…

Marble Arch Caves

Marble Arch Caves in Co. Fermanagh is one of the best showcaves in Europe. I’d highly recommend a visit! As part of the visitor experience, we created this short VR film, which visitors to the caves can experience in a new VR room at the visitor centre. I spent several days in the caves during…

Paris

We had a great week in Paris at the beginning of February and, as usual, I took some photos. Highlights of the week included the Louvre, Musee D’Orsay, Versailles, Sacre-Couer and Gustave Moreau’s house. I really enjoy observing people in the presence of art, and there’s hardly a better place on earth to do that!…

Day of the dead

New year’s day 2023. It had been a while since I’d spent a bit of time on a landscape shot, and even longer since I’d taken and assembled a 360 image, so I popped up to our local graveyard and made some images. These were shot with a Canon 5DSR as 2-stop bracketed exposures and…

Sicily, November 2022

We spent a week in Sicily at the start of November – mainly in Palermo, with a couple of day trips to Agrigento and Cefalú. The weather was nice and the crowds a little lighter, so it was a great time to visit this beautiful Italian island. As is customary on our trips, a lot…

New Year’s Festival Dublin

Online, outdoor, print, social and digital campaign for the Dublin New year’s Festival 2022/23. I art directed, designed and edited this campaign for Fáilte Ireland at CORE.

Rome

We went to Rome at the start of September 2022. It was still pretty much in peak tourist season and the weather was reaching close to 35 degrees, especially on the day we took an express train down to visit Pompeii. The crowds inside the Vatican made it feel like 45 degrees. We always enjoy…

Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camps 2022

Great fun campaign produced for this year’s Cúl Camps. Lots of energy and mayhem at the shoot and I think everyone, including myself had a lot of FUN – which is what Cúl Camps are all about.

Venice

I’m just back from an amazing week in Venice. I mean, the week itself was probably unremarkable, in the life of Venice, but the place is amazing. Quite unique, as far as I know. From the moment we landed at Venice airport, to the moment we landed back in Dublin, roads, cars, traffic, motorbikes, bicycles,…

Make A Wish

I’m really pleased to have had the chance to make this campaign for the fantastic charity Make-a-Wish Ireland. The production was a collaborative effort between ourselves at BBDO Dublin, Rubberduck and Make-a-wish Ireland and it was very enjoyable and rewarding to work on. Creative: James Carr, Gerry McBride Directors: Ben and Conor at RubberDuck DOP:…

Lidl Inflation Busters

Recent campaign for Lidl Ireland

Athens

I had the pleasure of spending a week in Athens, Greece in October. Not all of it looked this pretty, the area our hotel was in was particularly grotty, but the weather was beautiful, and there was a lot to see and do. It’s a shame the ancient ruins are so, ruined. But it’s still…

A small step to a giant adventure

Here’s a campaign we made in Summer 2021 for OOH and social ads for Tourism Northern Ireland. We shot over the course of 4 days with two families in 4 locations to produce print formats including 48, 6, 96 sheets, metropoles and bridges and video formats for DOOH and social ads.

More for you this Easter

Deep in lockdown, we all need to make more of every opportunity to have some fun. Our 2021 campaign for Lidl features a couple who do Easter to the max – with every possible indulgence from the amazing selection available at Lidl.

We all need a lidl christmas

What a year 2020 has been! If ever there was a year that needed a little cheering up, this is it. So we made a campaign for Lidl that focused on the fun, the joy and the old-fashioned magic of Christmas.