Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams

Lighthouses represent the old cliché of the light and the darkness. But in a way they seem sort of timeless. They're not, of course; time is passing them by now in the digital age. But for 200 years lighthouses were these magical things that saved lives and produced the light and the darkness...

– Photographer Grant Sheehan on his love of lighthouses

I can't think of anything worse than having given myself over to one specific type of photography and done that all my life. I mean, I'm not disrespecting that. Some people go down that path, and I can see how gratifying that might be . . . But for me, that’s photographer prison.

– Grant Sheehan on his need for variety, Whānau Mārama/NZ International Film Festival website