Helen Sloan, an Irish photographer who initially started her professional work taking wistful pictures of acrobatic artists in a circus company has moved into a long term assignment as a photographer filming for the American HBO's TV series titled Game of Thrones. She is an Irish member of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers (SMPSP) and is the first Irish person to work from Los Angeles. She held an exhibition of her "on-set photography" in May 2016 under the auspices of AP and Nikon School in London, of her still photographs taken for the HBO's series.