Focus On Happiness - Mindful Photography with Trevor

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www.focusonhappiness.ie I’m Trevor O’Donoghue, and this is Focus on Happiness, a tribe built around mindful photography and finding joy in everyday moments. After years of using photography as a tool to help me stay present and navigate life’s challenges like loss, illness and anxiety. I’ve learned that happiness is something we create, not just something that happens. Through Focus on Happiness, I aim to share what I’ve learned and help others connect with themselves and the world around them through their cameras. This is a space for photographers of all levels to explore the creative and healing power of photography, participate in fun daily challenges and come together both online and offline to capture life’s meaningful moments. Let’s find peace, gratitude and happiness—one mindful click at a time. Explore more at www.focusonhappiness.ie

26/10/2025

Killarney Photographer Highlights ‘The Cost of Breathing’

Killarney-based photographer Trevor O’Donoghue is celebrating a special collaboration this week with Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, marking the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with a moving new exhibition titled “The Cost of Breathing.”
The exhibition, launched this week, explores the often unseen challenges faced by people living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) both in Ireland and around the world. Through a series of striking self-portraits, Trevor uses colour and symbolism inspired by the chakra system to express the emotional reality of living with a lifelong illness in a system that can sometimes overlook your needs.
Supported by Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, Focus on Happiness, and the Department of Social Protection, the project highlights the true cost of life with CF, from the financial strain of heating homes and powering essential medical equipment, to the exhaustion of daily treatment and the loss of opportunities that come with chronic illness.
“This isn’t a comfortable story,” Trevor says, “but it’s one told with hope.”
The Cost of Breathing is now available to view as an online exhibition, with a nationwide tour of the full collection to follow soon.
Visit the virtual gallery through Cystic Fibrosis Ireland’s website, and keep an eye on future editions of The Outlook for details on upcoming exhibition locations.

01/10/2025

To mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Cystic Fibrosis Ireland in collaboration with Focus on Happiness and Trevor O'Donoghue Photography, would like to invite you to the launch of 'The Cost of Breathing' - a series of symbolic self-portraits which confront the emotional reality of poverty and Cystic Fibrosis.

📅 17th October
⏰ 1pm
✔️Online

The exhibition asks what it feels like to survive in a system that often overlooks your needs. A place where everything has a cost, even the breath in your lungs.

This is not a comfortable story. But it is one told with hope.

Join us by registering at https://www.cfireland.ie/support-resources/members-events/the-cost-of-breathing
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‘’ Do you have struggles? Are you not feeling your usual self? Is life a little harder? Are you stressed, anxious or low? Maybe you just feel bored, isolated or lonely? Is it time to practice more self-care? Do you enjoy nature, but don’t get out enough? Would you like to learn how to experience nature fully? Do you struggle to combat the Covid mindset? Or do you just feel there is something missing and you could be happier? Well you are not alone’’

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As of June 2020 over 3.5 billion of us own a smart phone. That’s just over 45% of the world’s population and nearly a 10% increase on 2019. 610 million of us own digital cameras. 3 billion of us are on some form of social media and there are over 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook every day. The figures above tell us that taking, posting and sharing pictures of what is going on in our lives has become the new normal for a high percentage of people. Human beings have evolved to be social creatures. Social interaction is a basic human need we all have. We have survived and flourished on this planet through togetherness and communities. With resources like social media readily available to most, we are more connected today than we have ever been before. Even though this is the case, scientists still believe that the next big epidemic to have a drastic effect on all of our well-being, is the feelings of isolation and loneliness. We may be more connected, but the use of social media and smart devices have shown to have adverse effects on our mental health and well-being. In a world where they play an enormous part of our lives, it’s time we take responsibility for this and start putting these resources to use in new and more productive ways.

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