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Orla Fitzpatrick studied History of Design and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design Dublin (N.C.A.D.) and has a PhD in photographic history from Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. She was born and lives in Dublin and has worked as a librarian in various cultural institutions including the National Library of Ireland’s photographic archive. Her recent publications include a journal article on fashion and fanzines in 1980s Dublin (Vox, Dublin: Hi Tone Books, 2019) and a book chapter on the decline of two nineteenth-century landed estates (Roscommon History & Society, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2018). She teaches history of photography and visual culture at N.C.A.D. and is the librarian for the National Museum of Ireland.

Ken Fitzgerald is an adopted Texan who subscribes to the motto: “I wasn’t born here, but I got here as fast as I could.” A Dallas resident, he works in neighboring Fort Worth and has written and photographed features for railway periodicals over a period of thirty years. He first wrote and photographed the original Dallas Then and Now in 2000 and has now wholly revised and rephotographed the book a decade later.