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Governance

PhotoIreland provides a unique support framework focused on artists, the artform and audiences. The Staff and Board of Directors work together to support the organisation’s projects and achieve its goals.
Find out more about them in the about page.

Company Staff

Ángel Luis González, Julia Gelezova, Eva Comerford, Anna Haag, Anna Keane, Aphra Hartmann, and Chloe Maguire.

Angel Luis Gonzalez. Photo by Matthew Thompson

Ángel Luis
González

Executive Director
angel@photoireland.org

Julia
Gelezova

General Manager
julia@photoireland.org

Anna Haag

Anna
Haag

The Library Project Assistant
info@thelibraryproject.ie

Aphra Hartmann

Aphra
Hartmann

The Library Project Assistant
info@thelibraryproject.ie

Anna Keane

Anna
Keane

The Library Project Assistant
info@thelibraryproject.ie

Board of Directors

The company is currently in the process of becoming a charity, and the members who will become trustees are:
Fiona Hackett and Marcos Zubrzycki (Co-Chairs), David O’Flynn, Lorcan Gogan, Anne James, Gordon Jamieson, David Kronn, and Mark Shiel.

Fiona Hackett, Co-Chairperson

Fiona Hackett is an artist, academic tutor, and researcher based in Dublin. She holds a PhD in Photography from the UCD Clinton Institute of American Studies, University College, Dublin – completed with a scholarship funded by the Irish Research Council. As an artist, she has exhibited in the DLR Lexicon, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Mermaid Arts Centre, and as part of EV+A International, among others, and she is the recipient of the Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award, RHA 189th Exhibition. She teaches theory and practice at a leading third-level institute, and she carries out research on photography and geological science, and others subjects. Various project-based consulting assignments, in particular in the areas of executive career coaching and development, change management and people development. She has also a background as an organisational psychologist.

Marcos Zubrzycki, Co-Chairperson

Marcos is a certified public accountant dedicated to the asset and wealth management industry. Marcos joined PwC in 1999, and has worked in the New York, Boston, and Puerto Rico offices during his 20+ years career. He served as an Employee Benefits Plans Specialist from 2005 to 2014 and has participated in internal quality control audits in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia over the last 10 years. Marcos joined the PwC Ireland Asset and Wealth Management team in January 2015 and currently co-leads the PwC Ireland Global Fund Distribution Services group. Marcos is a member of the Irish Funds Other-EU Fund Distribution working group and is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council of PwC Ireland. Marcos was born in Montreal, grew up in Puerto Rico, and has a bachelor’s degree in both accounting and history from Boston College and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. As an amateur photographer, Marcos is interested in documenting the ever-changing face of Dublin as a culturally diverse city and international economic hub.

David O’Flynn

Lorcan Gogan

Anne James

Anne James is a Dublin-based publisher, digital marketing consultant and artist of Portuguese and American nationality. She has edited and solicited work for Ploughshares and St. Petersburg Review and in 2012 she founded Zymbol, an internationally-distributed magazine of contemporary literature, photography and painting. She served on the board of New England Poetry Club at Harvard University from 2012-2016, and volunteers as a fundraising consultant to Threshold, Ireland’s national housing charity. In her marketing career, she has worked with both well-known Irish firms and high-growth startups, including Arthur Cox, Fields the Jeweller, UrbanVolt and Boxever. She holds a degree in cultural anthropology from Boston University (2009) and completed her master’s in visual and material culture at the University of Edinburgh (2011). An avid collector of photography, paintings, monographs and art ephemera, she recently began practicing professionally as an artist. She is currently researching the relationship between painting, photography and the attention economy in the Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) programme at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT).

Gordon Jamieson

Gordon Jamieson is a senior fundraising and business development professional based in Maynooth, Ireland. With extensive experience in fundraising and the Irish higher education sector, Gordon has held managerial roles at Maynooth University, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Trinity College Dublin. He joined Maynooth University as Senior Development Manager in February 2023, moving from RCSI where he was Head of Corporate Relationships for 5 years. Gordon holds a BA in Business Studies from Edinburgh Napier University. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Gordon has an interest in sports and Photography.

David Kronn

Dr David Kronn is an Irish-born paediatrician with a specialty in medical genetics, who lives and works in New York. Dr Kronn has built an extraordinary photography collection over the past twenty years, which is a promised gift to the Irish Museum of Modern Art to be enjoyed by the Irish public into the future. The overall donation substantially increases IMMA’s photographic holdings and provide an historical, contextual and expanding framework essential for the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary photography.

Mark Shiel

If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors, please get in contact by emailing boardofdirectors @ photoireland.org

Governance Documents

Company Details

Company Name
Photo Ireland Festival CLG

Legal Address
The Library Project
4 Temple Bar Street
D08 YK53, Dublin
Ireland

Companies Registration Office Number
468241

Date of Registration
06/03/2009

Company Directors
Angel Luis Gonzalez Fernandez
Julia Gelezova

Company Secretary
Julia Gelezova

VAT and EORI Number
IE9748040M

Tax Clearance Access Number
842382

EU PIC
948987182

Bank
Allied Irish Banks
Grafton Street
Dublin 2

Solicitor
Lavelle Partners
St James’ House, Adelaide Road, D02 Y017, Dublin,
Ireland

Updated in Oct 2023.
For any other details, please contact us by email at info@photoireland.org