Howth by Rafal Krol

About the Prints

• All works are printed using Epson Stylus Pro printers with long-lasting Ultrachrome® HDR inks on professional glossy photo paper, with a small white border to facilitate mounting and framing.

• Prints are unframed. Photographs of framed prints are included only as display suggestions.

• Each print is securely packaged in a water-resistant sleeve and rigid mailer

• Larger print sizes are available upon request.

Howth

The Baily Lighthouse is located at the end of a promontory on Howth overlooking Dublin

Bay. This is the historic shipping channel between Dublin and Wales and over the centuries

hundreds of ships and thousands of lives have been lost to the sea. This was also the location

where the Vikings fled after the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. The first light signal was built

here in 1667 and the Baily Lighthouse was built in 1814 – 134 feet above the sea. Its fog bell

was added in 1853 after 80 lives were lost close by when The Queen Victoria sank. In 1996,

the lighthouse was converted to automatic operation, and the last of ‘The Keepers’ left in 

1997, making The Baily the last Irish lighthouse to go automatic.

About the artists

Rafał Król was born and raised in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, a small and picturesque city near the Beskid Mountains once known for its Fiat factory, which produced the iconic Fiat 126p. After Poland joined the European Union in 2004 and borders opened, he moved to Ireland, where he has lived ever since. He purchased his first camera—a compact Pentax S30—to document his time abroad, and what began as a simple fascination with photographing everything around him gradually evolved into a deep passion for minimalistic black-and-white seascape and landscape photography.

Rafał’s photography has been exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Art Exhibition (Dublin, 2014 and 2018), the Royal Ulster Academy (Belfast, 2015), and The Library Project (Dublin, 2018–2024). His work has also appeared in publications including Square Magazine (Canada), B+W Photography (UK), and Analog Magazine (Switzerland), among others.