We have a few updates regarding PhotoIreland Festival 2012.
As we work away on the preparations for this years events, we have decided to push the submissions deadline from the 1st of March to Friday 16th of March. You can find now more information about the OPEN Programme and the Portfolio 12 on our 2012 web site, including a selection of free workshops, very useful for all participants of both programmes.

The big news is that our headquarters this year will be in IMOCA, a huge warehouse off Baggot Street that since 2007 has been a hub of artistic activity, and that as an artist-led organisation hosts the Moxie Studios, since 2008 the largest group of studio members in all of Ireland. At IMOCA you will enjoy the Book & Magazine Fair, the Portfolio Reviews, our main exhibition on Migrations, and other exciting events we can not wait to share with you.

During the Book & Magazine Fair, we will count with the presence of local and international publishers, and we are glad to say that Markus Schaden will be in Dublin again this year! The Library Project will be on display for your enjoyment, offering a collection of more than 500 pieces from over 90 publishers.

Regarding participating organisations, we are glad to count again this year with the Gallery of Photography, The National Photographic Archive, the Douglas Hyde Gallery (who are bringing Paul Graham!), Monster Truck, Rua Red, the Centre for Creative Practices, Broadstone Studios, amongst many others. Details about their shows will be available closer to the festival, but we guarantee you will not be disappointed.

The kind people at Fire, the Fine Art Printing and Design Studio located off Synge Street, are working hard – as always – to host two main exhibitions at The Copper House Gallery. They are also collaborating with the festival by organising a number of free workshops for the OPEN Programme participants.

Finally, we have added a link to the National Campaign for the Arts on the 2012 site, as we support and would like to contribute to their work. As you know, next Wednesday 15 February Visual Artists Ireland  is hosting a meeting to explore how the visual arts sector can participate in the NCFA’s upcoming efforts. Register and get ready to share your thoughts.

We will post more news about exhibitions, workshops and talks in the coming weeks. Follow us in Facebook and Twitter - use the hashtag #pif12 - to stay up to date. And don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletters!

You can’t make it to Paris Photo? Or won’t manage to see ALL the events that were on in Paris this November? Do not fret!

PhotoIreland presents ‘Après Paris’, a fundraising night dedicated to contemporary Photography with a special feature on Paris’ photographic events this month. With highlights from Paris Photo, Nofound Photofair, Photo Off, Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Fotofever, Offprint, PhotoQuai 2011, this will be a night to remember.

The highlight of the evening will be Duke Special’s talk on ‘Under the Dark Cloth’, his recent collaboration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) to write all new songs inspired by photographs from the exhibition ‘Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand’.
Duke Special is playing The Sugar Club two days earlier on the 15th Nov.

Join us at The Sugar Club to celebrate, be in with a chance to win one of the fantastic raffle prizes (including a signed book of Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade’!), enjoy a few drinks, have a wee dance, get the news on PhotoIreland Festival 2012, and enjoy our special guests Barry W Hughes (supermassiveblackholemag.com) and Joby Hickey (jobyhickey.com)

We have a few more suprises up our sleeve, so keep checking for updates and mark the 17 November in your calendars! Head to The Sugar Club, we’ll be there from 8pm so you have even time to pop into the Gallery of Photography at 7pm for the launch of Dr. Justin Carville’s book ‘Photography and Ireland’ – highly recommended! [For more details, check out the Gallery of Photography’s Facebook Page]

PhotoIreland is looking forward to seeing you all at The Sugar Club. Let’s celebrate & help support Ireland’s International Festival of Photography and Image Culture.

Thu 17 Nov – from 8pm – The Sugar Club – Admission: €8 incl. raffle ticket

RSVP at the Facebook event page.

Poster photo by Joby Hickey.
Any comments or feedback, contact us at info @ photoireland.org

The catalogue is was available for purchase online priced €20.00, or signed by Martin Parr for €40.00. A special collectors edition, signed and numbered 1-30, in a handmade box, was produced priced at €100.00 – all prices exclude shipping costs. Please note that the book is sold out and we only have a few copies available for our own archive – we may make them available in the future.

We would like to thank the following people for their time and contribution to the production of ‘Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade’ catalogue: Lara Asole, Tomoka Aya, Gerry Badger, Chris Boot, Miguel Calderon, David Chandler, Alison Crosby, JH Engström, Hans Eijkelboom, Carolina Faustmann, Göster Flemming, Patrick Frey, Stephen Gill, John Gossage, Paul Graham, Thijs Groot Wassink, Peter-Frank Heuseveldt, Miyako Ishuichi, Motoi Kato, Rinko Kawauchi, Geert van Kesteren, Nina Korhonen, Nico Krebs, Peter Lau, Leigh Ledare, Kristen Lubben, Ruben Lundgren, Sheila Matthes, Ryan McGinley, Christien Meindertsma, Susan Meiselas, Poppy Melzack, Elizabeth Moy, Lars Müller Baden, Mariam Nahavandi, Taiyo Onorato, Alwina Pampuch, Martin Parr, Doug Rickard, Simon Roberts, Florian van Roekel, Daniela Rossell, Tomoyuki Sakaguchi, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Viviane Sassen, Markus Schaden, Sue So, Susumu Shimonishi, Alec Soth, Jules Spinatsch, Hiroshi Suganuma, Carrie Thompson, Hannes Wanderer, Michael Wolf, Donovan Wylie, Peter Yardley, and Uchihara Yasuhiko.

The list

Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade

Ryan McGinley
The Kids are Alright

Geert van Kesteren
Why Mister Why

Christien Meindertsma
Checked Baggage

Sakaguchi Tomoyuki
Home

Paul Graham
A Shimmer of Possibility

Dash Snow
Slime the Boogie

Viviane Sassen
Flamboya

JH Engstrom
Trying to Dance

Daniela Rossell
Ricas y Famosas

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
The Great Unreal

Archive of Modern Conflict
Nein, Onkel

Florian van Roekel
How Terry likes his coffee

WassinkLundgren
Empty Bottles

Alessandra Sanguinetti
On the Sixth Day

Alec Soth
Sleeping by the Mississippi

Rinko Kawauchi
Utatane

John Gossage
Berlin in the time of the Wall

Leigh Ladare
Pretend You’re Actually Alive

Simon Roberts
We English

Doug Rickard
New American Picture

Miguel Calderon
Miguel Calderon

Miyako Ishuichi
Mother’s

Jules Spinatsch
Temporary Discomfort: Chapter 1-V

Uchihara Yasuhiko
Son of a Bit

Donovan Wylie
Scrapbook

Stephen Gill
Hackney Wick

Susan Meiselas
In History

Michael Wolf
Tokyo Compression

Nina Korhonen
Anna, Amerikan Mummu

Hans Eijkelboom
Portraits & Cameras 1949-2009

EDITORIAL NOTES

Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Photobooks: Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade
Curated by Martin Parr
16 July—31 July 2011
National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
In the framework of PhotoIreland Festival 2011
International Festival of Photography and Image Culture

Catalogue edited by Moritz Neumüller & Ángel Luis González
Assistant Researcher Claudia Nir
Design by Conor & David
Book Photography by David Monaghan
Published by PhotoIreland, 2011

PhotoIreland
64 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
info @ photoireland.org
www.photoireland.org
+353 876856169

© The artists, the authors.
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted.
All rights reserved. No part of this publicationmay be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, inclusing photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.
Printed and bound in an edition of 500 by Impress Printing Works in Dublin, Ireland

Of late we have seen the rise of another collaborative form – Photography Collectives. These collectives concentrate on the collaborative process by organising workshops, group exhibitions, and collaborative projects. They see the collective approach as an alternative economic model, a sustainable principle of art production, where process, experience, authorship, responsibility and success are shared. And they are convinced that this model has serious advantages in the current context of local and global crisis.

Through our theme in 2011, ‘Collaborative Change’, we propose an exploration of a set of practices and modes of production where artists, curators and cultural organisations work in collaboration, or are focused on highlighting the efforts of those who do so. Promoting an idea of cultural entrepreneurship and cooperation, the festival intends to comment on current efforts by individuals and organisations addressing recent shifts, and also to search for unexplored paths towards new modes of collaboration.

We have programmed photographic exhibitions by European photo collectives, and site specific installations by two curatorial teams. A seminar will be held with international guests from diverse disciplines such as Economics, Art, Information Science, Sociology and Politics, to investigate the theme of the festival. There will be a selection of screenings that will run in parallel to the seminar.

Collaborative Change
Introducing ‘Collaborative Change’, a seminar in the framework of PhotoIreland Festival 2011, organised by GradCAM, in association with Dublin City Council Arts Office.
Dates: July 13-14 2011, Wood Quay, Dublin.
Deadline: 29th of April.

Please find more detailed information on the seminar in this document: CC-Seminar PIF 2011

If you are interested in participating and/or presenting in this seminar, please send an abstract per email to info@photoireland.org.

Blurb and PhotoIreland are looking for 20 great contemporary photography books to exhibit during the festival.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your outstanding Blurb photography book at PhotoIreland, that this year has a special focus on photo books, celebrating its first Book & Magazine Fair. The fair will start the 15th of July with the opening of ‘Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade’, an exhibition offering Parr’s personal selection of the 30 most important publications. Blurb will offer bookmaking seminars, and the popular Carousel Slide Slam in conjunction with Foto8 and Harry Hardie.

The 20 selected Blurb books will be available for all to see at the fair.
After PhotoIreland, they will travel to Belfast Photo Festival’s opening weekend in 5-7 August.

Interested? Read on to find out more.

Entry Guidelines
We’re looking for outstanding contemporary photography books that show a strong creative/photographic identity and high technical and conceptual standards. They should stand out and grab our judges attention!

The Jury
Moritz Neumüller, Curator of PhotoIreland
Angel Luis Gonzalez, Director of PhotoIreland
Rachel Stanley, Marketing, Blurb

The Deadline
Submit your book by June 10, 2011.

How To Enter Your Book
Please email a link to your Blurb book to: photoireland@blurb.com

Read more in Blurb

Your book must be set to public so we can see it and if your book is selected we will ask you to give us written permission to show it at the festivals. We have a form – so you won’t need to do any extra work!

The theme for “Home” is built around the domestic and the structure of life within a home; the physical nature of the interior and exterior, human interactions and relations, memories, possessions, etc. Home is many things, banal and everyday but always of the utmost importance. We all experience moments within our individual contexts of home or family, but do not necessarily share them beyond the physical construct of our own household setting.

There is an unspoken curiosity to see how others have these moments.  We are all guilty of taking glimspes through windows to see how others live.  What is this compulsion? Is this curiosity just plain nosiness or is it something more? Is it a desire to validate our own existence, to elicit self-reflection? What are we looking for when we glimpse through into another’s life?

If you are interested in submitting for “Home” then please send 6 examples of work (No larger than 450k), a brief description of the work and a small biography to staganddeer AT gmail.com

Please note that the deadline for submissions is Wednesday 20^th of April.

About Stag & Deer

Stag & Deer is an exhibition-making project giving contemporary art space to exhibit work. We deal chiefly with the medium of photography. Our goal is to showcase, bolster and support emerging contemporary art. For more info please visit our website at http://www.staganddeer.com

And if you can this year, volunteer and make the festival happen!

Thank you for your ongoing support!

The Festival Team

This year, the portfolio reviews will be pre-selected by submission. We will publish the names of the reviewers, and the opening and closing dates for the call by the end of April.

More detailed information will be offered in the coming weeks.