My photography has its origins in the southwest of Ireland, in beautiful Kerry

Inspiration is not something you look for, it finds you. The extraordinary landscape and the ever-changing moods of the southwest of Ireland immediately captivated me.

My name is Hajo Pirenz, born in 1967 in the lower Rhine area and now living in Hamburg and in the southwest of Ireland, near the small fishing village of Portmagee.
After studying aerospace engineering in Aachen, I began my professional career in management consultancy. Today, I work as a partner and shareholder in an international consulting firm and am responsible for technological and digital transformation projects in global companies.

As a kind of compensation, I started to intensify my photography in the last couple of years, especially in a time of involuntary restrictions.
My interest is primarily in landscape photography in black and white, supplemented by colour photography where the colour helps to tell the story.
Black and white reduce to the essential. I have chosen the same principle for the technique I work with. So I shoot with a Leica M11 Monochrom, a Leica M11-P, a Leica S3 medium format camera, and a Leica Q2 Monochrom with a tripod and Leica lenses – probably the best on the market.

Do you take better pictures with this technology? Probably not! But it encourages and demands focus, concentration and discipline. And if you like my pictures, then that's exactly what worked.

Together with my partner, Ute Roeseler, I founded Dan’s Gallery in Cahersiveen, in the southwest of Ireland. We run the gallery ourselves, presenting our own work – my photography alongside Ute’s fine art paintings. You are warmly invited to experience our art in person and discover how they unfold within the gallery space.

Dan’s Gallery | Photography
5 Main Street
V23 YP26, Cahersiveen
Co. Kerry, Ireland