Irwin started taking photographs at age 15. He moved to London, and worked as an editor and then in-house photographer at the magazine Dazed & Confused, with his first cover shoot first in 2007.[4][5]
After his friends did not hear from him for a few days, police found Irwin dead on 5 May 2016[4][8] in his London Fields flat on Mentmore Terrace. The door had been left open.[9] His family announced he had committed suicide,[10] which his friends believed was related to a breakup. Irwin's suicide was later confirmed by the coroner at the inquest following his death.[11] The investigating coroner, Jaqueline Devonish, noted that he had been suffering with depression and disclosed the results of his post-mortem revealing that he had died as a result of an overdose of GHB.[9] Irwin left an "Open letter to The World" on his laptop, in which he elaborated on his struggles with depression and "growing up in a cult". The note was published in Dazed in September 2016.[1]
