Visit PhotoIreland at Photo Fest Ireland 2012

PhotoIreland will be at Photo Fest Ireland again this year, offering you the chance to know more about the festival and to meet us in person. Photo Fest Ireland is a highly recommended one day event on all things relating the Photographic trade, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin Airport. Plenty of fun: during the event, both the traders and the visitors enjoy meeting fellow professionals, testing the latest gadgets and participating in seminars. Find out about the exhibitors, the seminars, and much more at photofestireland.com

See you there!

The Book & Magazine Fair
 2012

Book & Magazine Fair
13-15 July 2012

Following on from the success of the Book & Magazine Fair, 2011, the 2012 edition will again host a weekend long Photobook Fair. As well as showcasing our extensive library of over 500 photobooks, magazines and zines, the 2012 edition will include workshops, talks, review session, and films. In addition this years event will see a number of photobook publishers exhibiting their latest publications.

The 2012′s Book & Magazine Fair will be held at IMOCA and will be the ideal place to purchase books, meet the publishers in person, network, find inspiration and browse through the amazing publications on display. In addition you will have the opportunity to get your own work reviewed, enjoy exhibitions, talks by selected publishers, workshops and films, all dedicated to photography publications.

The Library Project at the Book & Magazine Fair
Last year we started a collection of the best contemporary publications around Photography and Image Culture that is now the core of our Library Project. The plan is to develop a free public resource library with up-to-date materials, free for all to enjoy. This unique collection, of over 500 books, will be available at the Book Fair for your enjoyment.

Note to Publishers
To book your place, get information on exhibiting and possibilities of holding workshops and talks at the Book & Magazine Fair 2012, please contact the fair coordinator Arcangela Regis at arcangela.regis@photoireland.org

Full details at http://2012.photoireland.org/intro/book_mag_fair.html

Festival Highlights

PhotoIreland Festival 2012
Migrations: Diaspora and Cultural Identity
1-31 July 2012

Migration is not only moving from one place to another, it is also a process of losing, rebuilding, defending and examining one’s own cultural identity. The photographic medium has always been at the forefront of investigating these phenomena, producing iconic images, recording moments of change, questioning cultural identity.
With this year’s theme we want to discuss and present issues related to Diasporas and Migration, their past and present impact on identity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics and the complexity of transnational lives today.

The main exhibition, On Migration, will feature projects such as Dinu Li’s Mother of All Journeys, Max Becher’s & Andrea Robbins’ 770, Isabelle Pateer’s series Unsettled and Jean Revillard’s Sara on the Bridge, among others. We will also present a selection of book dummies such as Francisca Lopez’ Bandi Binder project & Gergely Laszlo’s Collective Man, providing the unique opportunity to see these projects at a work-in-progress phase. Other artists on our shortlist areFrancesco Jodice, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Anthony Luvera and Roger Eberhard.

Within the theme, we will present David Monahan’s, Leaving Dublin and Maurice Gunning’s project on the Argentine Irish Diaspora at the National Photographic Archive.

Celebrating its second year, the Book & Magazine Fair (13-15 July) will offer two main exhibitions on the theme: Irene Attringer, head of the Maison de la Photographie Européenne’s Library, one of the world’s largest collections of its kind, will bring to Dublin a curated selection of photobooks. In addition, six international photography magazines, including asCamera Austria (Graz) and European Photography (Berlin), will co-curate a selection of contemporary photography.

The festival Symposium investigates ‘Migrations: Diaspora and Cultural Identity’, developed in collaboration with GradCAMand with the kind support of the Dublin City Council. It will take place on July 12 at the WoodQuay venue, and will be accompanied by film screenings, such as The Mexican Suitcase.

Portfolio 12, PhotoIreland’s international Portfolio Review (13-15 July) is an open submission, yet, we particularly welcome portfolios and photobooks associated with or around the festival theme. The deadline is16th March 2012.

The official exhibitions on the festival theme are complemented, as in past years, by the OPEN Programme. This wide spectrum of exhibitions, installations, performances, and projections, related to Photography & Contemporary Image Culture are shown in over 40 vibrant venues around Dublin.

Moritz Neumüller
Festival Curator

Portfolio Submissions: Deadline approaching – 16th March 2012

PhotoIreland Festival’s portfolio review weekend will take place from 13th-15th July 2012 at IMOCA, in Dublin city. This is a unique opportunity for emerging artists worldwide to highlight new photographic projects and meet with international professionals. The reviews will provide an opportunity for participants to receive advice, critique, and direction on their work, and serve as an aid in which photographers can extend their professional network.

Submissions deadline Friday 16th March 2012

While there is an open theme for the portfolio submissions, we particularly welcome portfolios and photobooks around the festival theme of ‘Migrations: Diaspora and Cultural Identity’, to enjoy the opportunity to participate in the main exhibition of 2012.

All submitted portfolios will initially be reviewed by a selected Jury who are looking for emerging talent and works by established artists using photography. The Jury will select 30 portfolios for review from all submitted work. Among those 30 selected portfolios the reviewers will choose one overall winner on July 15th. The selected artist will get the opportunity to exhibit in a solo show during the 2013 festival.

The international portfolio reviewers are:
• Walter Bergmoser – Curator & Photographer, Soul
• Reinhard Braun – Camera Austria, Graz
• Stefanie Braun – Photographers’ Gallery, London
• Gösta Flemming – Journal, Stockholm
• Nora Hauswirth – former CEO Sodapix, independent curator, Zurich
• David Kronn – Private Collector, New York
• Trish Lambe – Gallery of Photography, Dublin
• Dewi Lewis – Publisher, London
• Louise Clements – FORMAT Festival, Derby
• Andreas Müller-Pohle – European Photography, Berlin
• Moritz Neumüller – PhotoIreland, Dublin/Barcelona
• Markus Schaden - Schaden.com, Cologne
• Dagmar Seeland – UK Picture Editor at Stern, London

Submissions are done through the web site at http://2012.photoireland.org/intro/portfolio_12.html

Updates for PhotoIreland Festival 2012

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!

Introducing PhotoIreland Festival 2012 – Migrations: Diaspora & Cultural Identity

Après Paris: a night dedicated to contemporary Photography.

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

 

Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade: the list.

PhotoIreland Festival announces Martin Parr’s selection of the 30 most influential photobooks of the last decade. The selection, on show at the National Photographic Archive of Ireland until the 31st of July, is featured in the exhibition catalogue, limited to an edition of 500. The catalogue includes Martin Parr’s comments on each book, together with illustrations and ‘Author’s notes’. These are mostly unpublished texts by the photographers, publishers and curators of the works – personal statements on the process and raison d’être of each book.

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

Deadline for Submissions extended.

We have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to next Friday the 6th of May 2011, to allow for more photographers to join the programme this year. Do have everything ready to go by then!
Email us at info[AT]photoireland.org with your project and venue details, and we will send you the submission form. Happy days!

Seminar: Call for papers.

Collaborative efforts in the world of photography seem to respond to times of change. Magnum Photos, the classic example of a photographic co-operative, was founded in 1947.  It is now the most prestigious photographic agency in the world. Ostkreuz, its smaller German cousin, was founded in former East Berlin in 1990, just one year after the fall of the Wall. The main purpose of these agencies was, and to a certain extent still is, to protect its members’ copyrights and to promote them in the magazine and publishing market.

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.