We are running a crowdfunding campaign via Fundit to secure the production and distribution of this years catalogue. We put a lot of effort in producing an excellent publication, beautiful and practical: it allows you to know what is happening every day and where. The PhotoIreland Festival catalogue is a keeper!

Go Fundit!

What are the rewards?

On top of receiving a copy of the catalogue, you can opt to receive:

• A special pass to the Summer Campus launch at Moxie Studios, Dublin on July 11th.
• A limited edition PhotoIreland Festival 2013 tote bag.
• A full pass for the Summer Campus in Moxie Studios, Dublin (11-14 July).
• A special preview of the main show ‘New Irish Works’ in either Dublin (21st June), Limerick (3rd July) or Cork (5th July).
• Your copy of ‘New Irish Works‘, printed by Castle Print, published to accompany this year’s main show. You will receive it before it hits the shops.
• A second copy of the book and catalogue sent to whoever you nominate; your mom, friend, lover; school, gallery, library or college, in Ireland or abroad.
• A limited edition of ’New Irish Works‘.
• A limited edition signed print by one of the 25 photographers in the main show, printed by FIRE fine art printers.
• and much more!

Find out about all the rewards in Fundit.

Why we need your help?
This year for the first time the festival will be taking place in Limerick and Cork as well as Dublin. It is a fantastic development for the festival and it means the catalogue will be bigger than ever as it will include information on a larger number of events. We want to give the opportunity to people all around the country to get involved and engage with photography. The catalogue is free of charge for anyone who wants to pick one up so we need your help to ensure we reach as wide an audience as possible.

It will be distributed to libraries, colleges, galleries, museums and information centers so that the Irish public as well as tourists and visitors have access to this valuable and comprehensive resource. We need your help to ensure we have enough copies to go around as well as a few left over to bring to international photography festivals in order to showcase Irish photographic talent. The money raised will also cover the design of the catalogue so that it looks its best in time for the festival and does justice to the all the excellent work that will be on show.

So, go on! Help us make it a reality!

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Having enjoyed quite a rapid success, The Afronauts by Cristina De Middel is now sold out. If you have not seen the book already, you are more than welcome to enjoy it at The Library Project, in Dublin. We count ourselves lucky to have a copy that Cristina kindly donated!

The Afronauts App

But hey, the good news is that is now back as an app! The Afronauts app was launched on April 17th, is compatible with both iPad and iPhone, and starts at €5.99. Check this post by Martin Brink on The Digital Photobook for a preview and book/app comparison of The Afronauts by Cristina De Middel.

Recent articles on Cristina De Middel by Sean O’Hagan in The Guardian:
‘It was like a journey into the unknown’: self-publishing photographers. Mishka Henner, Andy Sewell, and Cristina de Middel talk about their experiences.

How photographers joined the self-publishing revolution. Cristina de Middel’s self-published photobook depicting Zambia’s 1964 space project is one of an increasing number of success stories for photographers going it alone.

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Daido Moriyama is one of the most important living photographers and photobook makers of current times.

His career began during the sixties in Tokyo, where he became a member of the influential Provoke group that created the most important style of Japanese post-war avantgarde photography. His oeuvre plays a central part in the establishment of Japanese photography as one of the important creative developments in the history of photography. In more than 50 years, Moriyama gained fame through his coarse, contrast-rich, partly unfocussed and highly grainy black-and-white photography, in which he deals which urban experiences, especially around the streets of Tokyo. His immense influence on young Japanese artists continues to date. Apart from black and white photography, Moriyama works with color, Polaroid’s, screen-printing, film, texts and installation. His fame is predominantly due to the more than 150 photobooks that he has continuously published—including masterpieces like Japan—A Photo Theatre (1968), Farewell Photography (1972), Light and Shadow 1982) and Shinjuku (2002).

The 6th Fotobook Festival (24-27 October 2013, Kassel, Germany) pays homage to Moriyama’s book opus through numerous program items, events and releases.

DAIDO BOOK SHOW

The Daido Book Show will form the center of the festival. This is an exhibition of all of Daido Moriyama’s books published so far where festival visitors will be able to view and touch these books. Rare or out-of-print books will be available as reprints, while all still available editions will be shown as originals.

DAIDO BOOK STUDIES

The exhibition Photobookstudies: The Daido Books will pay tribute to the book work of Moriyama with a new kind of display. After Studies on Ed van der Elsken and Stephen Shore shown in Paris, Hannover and Cologne, the german photobook specialist and curator Markus Schaden continues on all Daido books from Japan: A Photo Theatre  up to Menu!

DAIDO WALLS

Inside the big documenta-Halle Kassel, the festival will show tableaus of large-sized Daido Moriyama prints. Each tableau is related to one of Moriyama’s photobook classics.

ON DAIDO

The volume On Daido will be a photographic anthology of visual statements and homages to Daido Moriyama made by internationally well-known photographers. This publication in its special form will be exclusively available during the 6th Fotobook Festival.

JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS

Pecha Kucha-style presentations from publishers, book-makers, photographers, curators, bloggers… about their favorite contemporary Japanese photobooks.

GOLDEN GAI BAR

Japanese Bar Lounge: Drinks, Food, Beer and Music.

AND MORE

There will also be panels, book signings, on-site productions and further festival events. The annual festival Photobook Dummy Award for emerging photographers from around the world and the Best Photobook of the Year Award with their specially selected photobooks will also be presented.

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POPCAP 13

Organised by Piclet, POPCAP 13 is the prize for Contemporary African Photography that is awarded to photographic portfolios dealing with African themes. Piclet is now calling for entries for POPCAP ’13 from March 19 until May 1 2013. There is no entry fee to participate and the competition is open to photographers of any age and descent. Eligible submissions are visual narratives comprising between 10 and 25 images, and must relate to an African theme. Submissions will be judged by a panel of eighteen international judges, who will select five portfolios. Make sure you read the rules of entry.

Exposure

The selected 5 entries will be included in Piclet’s artists directory
, and will be exhibited at:
- Basel, during Art | Basel 44

- PhotoIreland Festival 2013
- LagosPhoto 2013
In addition, one of the top 5 portfolios will get published on the European Photography magazine.

Deadline: 1st May 2013

POPCAP was awarded for the first time in 2012, with five winners chosen from 140 submissions by a panel of nine internationally-sourced judges. This year the five chosen works will be presented to both the international arts community and the general public during Art Basel 44 as well as at PhotoIreland Festival 2013. During POPCAP ‘13 we will aim to maintain a constant discourse regarding African topics through public events running alongside the exhibition, with the overall objective of enhancing awareness of African themes in the arts. Due to its extensive application in a day-to-day context, we consider photography to be the ideal medium from which to foster an unhindered exchange of ideas.

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The International Photobook Festival celebrates its 6th edition in 2013, returning to the Documenta-Halle in Kassel, after a successful visit to Paris last year. With lectures, workshops, presentations, and the well-established Dummy Award, the festival has become a Mecca for the photobook experts, being the place to identify trends, find the latest publications, and network.

Present your unpublished photobook to international experts to win a complete book production by the German publishers seltmann+söhne and a presentation in the art magazine European Photography. Take this opportunity to win further prizes and the presentation of your book in:

• Milan, at the Milan Image Art Fair
• Dublin, at the PhotoIreland Festival 2013
• Paris, at Le Bal
• Kassel, at the 6^th International Photobook Festival

From the selected 50 titles, an international jury of experts will select 3 winners. The First Prize winner is given the opportunity to see the book published by printers and publishers Seltmann + Söhne, Cologne. The second and third prizes will receive book awards from Blurb of €500 and €300 respectively. The registration fee is €34. Entries close on 30 April 2013 and the latest arrival day of submitted books is 2 May. As it is always advised, make sure you check the entry conditions, and why not have a look at previous winners, in 2012, 2011, and 2010?

Submit your book

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Everyone interested in submitting their publications to The Library Project can now use the submissions form. All you have to do is to fill in the details, and once we will reply to you to confirm whether the submission is accepted or not. All accepted submissions to be posted to:

The Library Project
The Copper House, St Kevin’s Cottages,
Synge Street, Dublin 8,
Ireland

If the book is self-published or you as the author are sending the publication, please make sure to sign your book before posting it to us.

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Celebrating its fourth edition, PhotoIreland Festival will examine the current state of Photography in Ireland, offering a simultaneous exhibition of new talent in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick.

In the last decade, the currency and relevance of the medium on the island has consistently generated a flourishing of awards, residencies, educational programmes, publications and exhibitions. More than ever, the work of Irish based photographers can be seen in museums and galleries as far away as Australia, Argentina, and China. The main exhibition of PhotoIreland Festival 2013 will reflect on the diversity of practices that constitute contemporary Photography in Ireland, and it will be accompanied by a special publication.

Official festival launch: Limerick 3 July, Dublin 4 July, and Cork 5 July.

Curatorial team:
Michele Horrigan (Artist & Curator)
Pádraig Spillane and Pamela Condell (Stag & Deer)
Ronan McCall (Photographer & Curator, Severed Head Gallery)
Moritz Neumüller and Ángel Luis González (PhotoIreland Festival)

With the support of Occupy Space and Ormston House in Limerick, and TACTIC in Cork.

Portfolio 13 – International Portfolio Reviews
11/14 July – Dublin

PhotoIreland Festival’s portfolio review weekend will take place on 11-14 July 2013 in Dublin city, representing a unique opportunity for emerging artists worldwide to highlight new photographic projects and meet with international professionals to further their careers. Portfolio 13 is open to all photographers worldwide, working on any theme.

Deadline for portfolio submissions
5pm Friday 29 March 2013

Reviewers
Andy Adams, Flak Photo, Wisconsin, USA.
Barry W Hughes, Director, SMBH Magazine, Dublin, Ireland.
Calin Kruse, Founder and Director, Dienacht Magazine, Leipzig, Germany.
Dieter Neubert, Director, International Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany.
Irène Attinger, Library Curator, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
John Duncan, Co-editor, Source Photographic Review, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jörg M. Colberg, writer, photographer, and educator, Conscientious, MA, USA.
Karen McQuaid, Curator, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK.
Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Böhm/Kobayashi, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Krzysztof Candrowicz, Director, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland.
Leszek Wolnik, Curator, The Copper House, Dublin, Ireland.
Markus Schaden, Publisher, Schaden.com, Cologne, Germany.
Matt Packer, Curator, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Moritz Neumuller, Independent Curator, Educator and Writer, Barcelona, Spain.
Olivier Laurent, News and Online Editor, The British Journal of Photography, London, UK.
Pádraig Spillane and Pamela Condell, Curators Stag & Deer, Cork, Ireland.
Rui Prata, Founder, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal.
Susan Zadeh, Founder and Director, Eyemazing, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Stefano Stoll, Director, Festival IMAGES, Vevey, Switzerland.
Yasmina Reggad, Director and Founder, Photo-Festivals, London, UK.

The reviewers will select an overall winner, who will be offered a solo show in PhotoIreland Festival 2014.  In July 2012, the reviewers selected David Galjaard’s Concresco as the overall winner of Portfolio 12.

For more information visit the Portfolio 13 page.

David Galjaard, Concresco.
The Copper House Gallery, Dublin.
Opening: 13 July 2013

Fearing an attack from abroad, Albanian Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha had around 750,000 aboveground bunkers built during his time in power, from 1945 until his death in 1985. After the collapse of communism in 1991, the virtually indestructible bunkers were deprived of their unfulfilled purpose, serving purely as an obtrusive reminder of a dictatorship that had had lasted for almost fifty years. Today their massed presence seems mainly to impress foreigners, while Albanians themselves prefer to look to the future. Although accession to the EU is expected to take at least another ten years, the population has a sense of being ready for it.

In this documentary, the bunkers are used as a visual metaphor in the telling of a larger social story. They help to paint a picture of developments in a country that was the last in Europe to renounce communism and has set out on a demanding quest to become part of the capitalist West.

PhotoIreland Festival 2013 will bring to Dublin an exhibition of David Galjaard’s ‘Concresco’, winner of Portfolio 12 last year, and The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award 2012.

Cristina de Middel, The Afronauts.
The Copper House Gallery, Dublin.
Opening: 13 July 2013

In 1964, after gaining independence, Zambia started a space programme led by Edward Makuka Nkoloso, sole member of the unheard of National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy. The programme, whose aim was to send the first African astronauts to Mars, was soon cancelled, becoming no more than an amusing anecdote in the country’s history. In ‘The Afronauts’ De Middel creates a subjective version of the story engaging with myths and truths.

The now sold-out book is comprised of a series of constructed colour photographs, sequenced alongside drawings and reproductions of letters, resulting in a fictional portrait of a national dream.

Cristina De Middel’s work, nominated for The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, will be exhibited during PhotoIreland Festival 2013 at The Copper House Gallery.

Book & Magazine Fair
11/14 July – Dublin

The third edition of the Book & Magazine Fair will bring to Ireland the latest local and international publications. Programmed parallel to the International Portfolio Reviews, it is the ideal space for networking with fellow professionals and discover new work. Visitors will also be able to enjoy The Library Project, with over 800 photobooks, magazines and zines free for everyone to browse.

Publishers worldwide are invited to participate in the fair offering visitors their publications. This year, special attention will be given to the new electronic books, and as every year, to the photobook, magazines, fanzines, and the self-published. Publishers and Photographers are also welcome to actively participate in the programme of talks and workshops, and to contribute to The Library Project with their publications.

To book your place, get information on exhibiting and possibilities of holding workshops and talks at the Book & Magazine Fair 2013, please check our website or contact the fair coordinator at publishers@photoireland.org

Summer Campus 2013
1/31 July – Dublin, Limerick & Cork.

In 2013, the Summer Campus offers a great selection of workshops, talks and lectures for all audiences, with the participation of key international figures such as Jörg M. Colberg, Cristina de Middel, Andy Adams, and David Galjaard.

More information about the programme of events will be available at 2013.photoireland.org

PhotoIreland Festival
64 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
www.photoireland.org
info@photoireland.org
+353876856169
Twitter: @PhotoIreland
Facebook: /PhotoIrelandFestival

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Last year, 50 projects were part of the OPEN programme. The photographers, galleries, and studios involved benefited from the publicity received via our marketing in print, radio, television, online and in the social media. It represents a great opportunity to promote personal and collective projects, and the ideal arena to experiment with exhibition making.

The CANON Open Programme 2013 offers artists, photographers, curators and organisations the chance to put forward events outside the festival theme.

We welcome submissions of events relating to Photography and Contemporary Image Culture, from national and international individuals and organisations, looking to develop their own events in Dublin, Cork and Limerick during the month of July. The events could be exhibitions, installations, performances, films, shorts, videos, talks, workshops, and others.

All participants will be featured in the Festival Catalogue and on the PhotoIreland Festival website, and will receive festival catalogues to distribute during the event.

Who should submit

The CANON Open Programme 2013 is open to all individuals and organisations worldwide, looking to develop their own events in Cork, Dublin and Limerick. Please, make sure you read the guidelines.

Deadline

5pm Friday 26th April 2013

Submission Process

The submission process is simple: let us know what you plan to do, and we will reply within 48 hours with an answer. If accepted, you should then head to the ‘Submit Now’ tab in the Canon Open Programme page, and finalise the application. Once payment is produced, you will receive a form to fill in. The form help us gather your event details to be included in all materials.

Exposure

The CANON Open Programme 2013 offers you the opportunity to:

• Be featured in PhotoIreland Festival 2013 catalogue and website.
• Get your work seen by all our international guests, and Book & Magazine Fair participants at a special presentation on July 11th 2013.
• Publication opportunities via our media partners in Ireland and abroad, on and offline.

For a full list of details, schedule, reviewers, rules and FAQ, please visit the Canon Open Programme page.

Find out more

Thanks to Cian Brennan for producing the video, and to Ben Bix for the music.

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PhotoIreland Festival’s portfolio review weekend will take place on 11-14 July 2013 in Dublin city, representing a unique opportunity for emerging artists worldwide to highlight new photographic projects and meet with international professionals to further their careers.

Who should submit

Portfolio 13 is open to all photographers worldwide, working on any theme. Please, make sure you read the guidelines.

Deadline

5pm Friday 29th March 2013

Reviewers

Andy Adams, Flak Photo, Wisconsin, USA.
Barry W Hughes, Director, SMBH Magazine, Dublin, Ireland.
Calin Kruse, Founder and Director, Dienacht Magazine, Leipzig, Germany.
Dieter Neubert, Director, International Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany.
Irène Attinger, Library Curator, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
John Duncan, Co-editor, Source Photographic Review, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jörg M. Colberg, writer, photographer, and educator, Conscientious, MA, USA.
Karen McQuaid, Curator, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK.
Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Böhm/Kobayashi, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Krzysztof Candrowicz, Director, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland.
Leszek Wolnik, Curator, The Copper House, Dublin, Ireland.
Markus Schaden, Publisher, Schaden.com, Cologne, Germany.
Matt Packer, Curator, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Moritz Neumuller, Independent Curator, Educator and Writer, Barcelona, Spain.
Olivier Laurent, News and Online Editor, The British Journal of Photography, London, UK.
Pádraig Spillane and Pamela Condell, Curators Stag & Deer, Cork, Ireland.
Rui Prata, Founder, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal.
Susan Zadeh, Founder and Director, Eyemazing, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Stefano Stoll, Director, Festival IMAGES, Vevey, Switzerland.
Yasmina Reggad, Director and Founder, Photo-Festivals, London, UK.

Exposure

Portfolio 13 offers you the opportunity to:

• Be part of the International Portfolio Reviews programme in 2013.
• Be featured in PhotoIreland Festival 2013 catalogue and website.
• Get your work reviewed by a selected group of professionals.
• Be featured in a special publication that will accompany the event.
• Get your work seen by all our international guests, and Book & Magazine Fair participants at a special presentation on July 11th 2013.
• Publication opportunities via our media partners in Ireland and abroad, on and offline.
• The reviewers will select an overall winner, who will be offered a solo show in PhotoIreland Festival 2014.

For a full list of details, schedule, reviewers, rules and FAQ, please visit the Portfolio 13 page.

Find out more

Thanks to Cian Brennan for producing the video, and to Orquesta for the music.

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We felt it very relevant taking the opportunity this year to drive a wee bit of attention to the local produce during the festival, photographically speaking. We are confident to say that in Ireland many photographers and artists engaging with Photography have been producing outstanding projects, but that perhaps there has been a struggle to reach out to international audiences. Thanks to online magazines and Social Media some works have received recognition. In other cases, it was through personal efforts that exposure was gained in festivals and events abroad. But how about a collective effort?

In 2013, under the working title ‘Reviewing Photography in Ireland’, PhotoIreland seeks to represent the diversity of practices that constitute contemporary Photography in Ireland. Our aim is to offer a selection of work that would represent what the practice of Photography looks like in Ireland today, and bring it together in an exhibition that will take place simultaneously in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. The show will be illustrated by a special publication available during the festival. In November, the exhibition will travel to the NoFound Photo Fair, Paris, where your work will be presented to collectors, curators and other international professionals.

Do not miss this great opportunity to promote your practice in Ireland and abroad! Submit your works no later than 5pm on Friday, 1st March 2013.

Who should submit

The Main Show welcomes submissions by photographers and artists from Ireland & Northern Ireland, and those internationals based in the island, working on any theme. Please, make sure you read the guidelines.

Deadline

5pm Friday 1st March 2013

Exposure

• Be part of the main show in 2013.
• Be featured in PhotoIreland Festival 2013 catalogue and website.
• Participate in a simultaneous exhibition in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
• Be featured in a unique publication about Photography in Ireland that will accompany the exhibition.
• Get your work seen by our international guests, portfolio reviewers and Book & Magazine Fair participants at a special presentation on July 11th 2013.
• Publication opportunities via our media partners in Ireland and abroad, on and offline.
• Participate in a touring exhibition: Exhibit and sell your work at the NoFound Photo Fair in Paris.

For a full list of details, schedule, curators, rules and FAQ, please visit the main show page.

Find out more

Thanks to Cian Brennan for producing the video, and to iH! Audio for the music.

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