SELECTED CLIENTS : 

 The Guardian / Tiger beer / Unicef Ireland / The Sunday Times / The New York Times / The Irish Times / Havas / Aer Lingus / Harper Collins / Innocent smoothies / Virgin Records / RCA Records

Three Ireland / Movember Ireland / 3 Fe Coffee / Dawn Fitzgerald Atelier / Thinkhouse PR / WHPR /

Bodytonic music / The Lir Academy / Sure / Cara magazine /Business Post/ Trendi magazine / Barzuk records / Innocent smoothies /

Bacardi / Pernod Ricard / RTE / Dublin Fringe Festival / Sony music / All Bar None / Weirs & Sons / Sure / Roads group

Social and Personal magazine / Irish Tatler / Slater Design / Saba restaurant / Wolfie marketing / Goodfellas Pizza


JP Keating is an Irish Documentary and Commercial Photographer who works both in the studio and on location internationally. He started taking photographs at an early age with his grandmothers’s point-and-shoot camera. Initially, he began with portraits of his family and friends and documenting his life but then in his early 20’s a love for documentary and street photography developed. While studying fashion design in college, he began photographing fellow students’ collections and these images started appearing in both national and international publications such as ID magazine, Trendi and Image magazine.

Soon after this, he found himself shooting editorials for publications such as the Sunday Times Style magazine, The Sunday Business Post, Social and Personal magazine and Irish Tatler.

In 2015 the Sunday Independent featured him as a rising star in Irish fashion. Throughout this time working commercially he maintained his love of documentary and his first book “ The Lir is Forever “ was commissioned and published. The book documents the construction and opening of Ireland’s first purpose-built acting school in conjunction with RADA London and Trinity College Dublin. Throughout this process, Many of Ireland’s leading actors, writers and directors sat for him both in the studio and on location.

2015 also saw him commissioned by UNICEF Ireland to document a project in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He spent a month documenting the construction of several safe parks throughout the province's most underprivileged areas, photographing the people and their lives within these communities. In 2016, Magnum Photos highlighted his photo essay “ Danny “ as a defining narrative on addiction. For this project, he spent six months with a homeless heroin addict documenting his life.

In 2017 he was featured as one of Ireland’s top 10 creatives by The Irish Times magazine in an interview series which ran nationwide.

In 2018 he formed the creative collective “ Aesthetic “  with some of Ireland’s most renowned graphic designers, Videographers and illustrators. He produced and directed numerous still and motion advertisements for brands such as Jameson Irish whiskey, Just-eat.ie, Bord na Mona, Roads group, The Big Grill festival, The Beatyard festival and Bodytonic music as well as providing creative direction for several rebranding projects for various companies in the hospitality sector.

Along with his commercial work in 2025, JP is working on a series of social documentaries ranging from Immigration and asylum seekers living in Ireland, to the Travelling community. As well as expanding his food and product portfolio in his studio at home in Wexford where he lives with his wife, three daughters and his dogs Larry and Poppy.


SELECTED PRESS :

THE IRISH TIMES MAGAZINE.

“ Photography Is an art form that is honed not just through training, but through dedication, hard work, and visit upon visit to the Kodak counter. Thus, when kicking off this series, Nine Lives, We had to look for a photographer who reflected and embodied the creativity and flair which have been constant themes. Somebody who has visually explored the very essence of Dublin in all its urbanite glory. That man, and the sixth of our Nine Lives, is J.P Keating, whose work in portraiture and commercial photography has humanity and character that is only rivalled by the man himself.

His work has flitted between social strata - he's as likely to document the down-and-out as he is to document Colm Meaney or Saoirse Ronan, and there’s a pervading sense of the documentary woven into his work.

It’s probably J.P’s effusive everyman humour that makes his work with high-profile actors and musicians as powerful as his work documenting the faces at the bus stop. He can’t help but laugh as he recalls sitting in Colm Meaney’s mam’s kitchen, trying to work out how to shoot Meaney for The Lir, as the rain pummelled the window panes. On heading into the back garden, Meaney, with rain-splattered spectacles, starts yelling at the elements. Out comes J.P’s camera, and some of the most beautiful images you’re ever likely to see of the Irish actor are caught for posterity. It’s the lack of manipulation that J.P uses, that really gives his portrait work soul, in the most magical sense of the word. As for his next project, he is travelling back to the Eastern Cape, working on a book with UNICEF. He’ll be documenting young people as part of a youth empowerment programme, which we’re certain will be poignant, affecting work. “

KATE COLEMAN - THE IRISH TIMES MAGAZINE.