PhotoIreland presents a selection of 192 books by over 120 artists from its collection brought together to exemplify the importance of the book format for contemporary photographic practices in Ireland.
PhotoIreland is heading to New Zealand this summer to join the Photobook/NZ biennial. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover many unique, out of print, and rarely seen publications, tracing the rapid evolution of the Irish photobook in the past decade and get to know the many artistic practices behind them. Visit the Photospace Gallery to enjoy the exhibition On the Irish Photobook and purchase the limited copies traveling to Wellington at the Photobook/NZ Book Fair, hosted at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Scroll down to see the full list of exhibited publications. The poster, featuring an image from ‘No Queer Apologies’ (2022) by Niamh Barry, is available here as a print ready PDF.
This project promoting Irish artists in New Zealand is kindly supported by Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy of Ireland in New Zealand/Aotearoa.
On the Irish Photobook
Running 8-15 August 2024
At Photospace Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Talk 11 August 2024
Arriving to New Zealand for the first time, PhotoIreland are invited to present in the Photobook/NZ biennial a selection of Irish photobooks from its collection showcasing the diversity of practices and backgrounds that constitute photographic practices in Ireland today.
Photobook/NZ is New Zealand’s national photobook festival, celebrating photobooks and connecting photographers, publishers and their book-loving audiences. The fifth biennial Photobook NZ festival takes place this year in Wellington.
The Irish photobook has had great international successes, most noticeably with Ciarán Óg Arnold’s I Went to the Worst of Bars, that won the MACK Books First Book Award in 2015; Jan McCullough’s Home Instruction Manual, winner of the Kassel Fotobookfestival Dummy Award 2016; and Eamonn Doyle’s ambitious books i (praised first by Martin Parr), ON and End. But there are many other great books to praise. In presenting a selection of contemporary and momentous Irish photobooks from the PhotoIreland Collection, we aim to share a reflection on the wealth of practices and approaches demonstrated.
The PhotoIreland Collection is an on-going project focused on publications with thousands of items from all over the world. It is in continuous expansion with new materials added weekly. It is currently housed at The Library Project, Dublin, as a resource library open to the public. This is one of the many ways in which PhotoIreland supports the discipline in Ireland.
Browse the online catalogue of the PhotoIreland Collection at library.photoireland.org
Photobook/NZ Book Fair
Running 8-11 August 2024
At Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
On the 10th August, book fair visitors will have the opportunity to purchase a selection of Irish publications, from photobooks to zines, critical books and more, including many of PhotoIreland’s own publications, such as OVER Journal, TLP Editions, and others.
Exhibited Publications
Photobooks and Zines
Adrian O’Carroll, 06:42
Adrian O’Carroll, 30/30
Aisling McCoy, The Radiant City
Aisling McCoy, The Radiant City (Dummy)
Andrew Nuding, Hunt the Wren
Billy Woods, Papar
Brian Teeling, In the Glow of a Frozen Flame
Brian Teeling, Wet Dream
Bryony Dunne, The Sky Only Welcomes Those With Wings
Chris Finnegan, Suburban Fantastic
Ciaran Og Arnold, I went to the worst of bars
Daragh Soden, Young Dubliners
David Farrell, The Swallowing Tree
Dennis Dinneen, Small Town Portraits
Dominic Turner, False Friends
Dragana Jurisic, Her Own
Eamonn Doyle, END
Eamonn Doyle, i
Eamonn Doyle, O
Eamonn Doyle, ON
Eamonn Doyle, ONE
Éanna de Fréine, Lost Rivers
Emma O’Brien, The Holding Place
Fiona Hackett, The Long Disease
Jan McCullough, Home Instruction Manual
Joe Sterling, Obair Chrua Inis Mhic Cionnaith 1991
Johnny Savage, White Horses
Kate Nolan, Neither
Kenneth O’Halloran, BING, BING, BONG, BONG, BING, BING, BING
Kevin Griffin, Omey Island
Linda Brownlee, Achill
Luis Alberto Rodriguez, People of the Mud
Mark Duffy, Vote #1
Mark Duffy, Vote #2
Martin Seeds, No Country for Young Men
Megan Doherty, Stoned in Melanchol
Miriam O’Connor, Attention Seekers
Miriam O’Connor, The Misbehaving Camera
Miriam O’Connor, Tomorrow is Sunday (zine)
Niamh Barry, No Queer Apologies
Noel Bowler, Union
Paul Carroll, Gaelic Fields
Paul Gaffney, We Make the Path
PhotoIreland, Martin Parr’s Best Books
PhotoIreland, New Irish Works 2013
Rhiannon Adam, Big Fence/Pitcairn Island
Richard Gilligan, Time/Line
Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre
Róisín White, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back (Dummy 1)
Róisín White, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back (Dummy 2)
Róisín White, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back
Rose Comiskey, Travellers’ Rights March Dublin, 1985
Roseanne Lynch, Grammar
Ross McDonnell, Joyrider (Dummy)
Ross McDonnell, Joyrider
Shane Lynam, Fifty High Seasons
SMUT, Cruising Archaeology
Ste Murray, Have Pass Will Travel
Tony O’Shea, Italia 90 Dublin
Tony O’Shea, Ways of the Cross
Wally Cassidy, Dublin City, 1989-1993
Wally Cassidy, Dublin Punks, 1990-1993
Wally Cassidy, Feile The Trip to Tipp
Wally Cassidy, Smithfield Horse Fair Dublin, 90-93
Young Dubliners, Daragh Soden
New Irish Works II Green Box Set
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, The Passenger
Aisling McCoy, The Radiant City
Caitriona Dunnett, Mass Paths
Dara McGrath, Project Cleansweep
Daragh Soden, Young Dubliners
David Thomas Smith, Arecibo
Éanna de Fréine, Tales from Beneath the Arches
Emer Gillespie, Fallen Women
Enda Bowe, At Mirrored River
Jan McCullough, Home Instruction Manual
Jill Quigley, Cottages of Quigley’s Point
Kate Nolan, LACUNA
Mandy O’Neill, Promise
Matthew Thompson, Solitary
Miriam O’Connor, Tomorrow is Sunday
Noel Bowler, Union
Robert McCormack, Facade
Roseanne Lynch, Eloquent Proof
Shane Lynam, Inner Field
Yvette Monahan, The Thousand Year Old Boy
Aarif Amod, Moore Street Pulse
Aidan Kelly, Common Courtesy
Alec Moore, In Drift
Alex Sinclair, Tokyochrome
Aoife Herrity, Sleeping Dogs Lie
Bob Negryn, The Land Seen
Bob Negryn, The Random View
Bronwyn Andrews, Matera
Caitriona Dunnett, A Well Trodden Path
Caitriona Dunnett, Hill Close Gardens
Charlotta Hammar, All Shelters Are Marked With A Sign
Chris Finnegan, House Rules
Clare Gallagher, Verges
Clare Samuel, Us (& It)
Clare Steele, Descendants
Cristina Gismondi, Reasons
Daniel Breen, One Hundred Seconds to Midnight
David Flood, A Place Like All Others
Dianne Whyte, The Trap Rooms
Dianne Whyte, Utopia
Dorje de Burgh, What are the Roots That Clutch
Dylan Davies, The Hill
Ellie Berry, Footnotes
Ellius Grace, Capital
Emma O’Brien, The Holding Place
Faolán Carey, On our Doorstep
Frank Miller, Saint Patrick’s Days
Frankie Malone, Train
George Voronov, Galway Races
Gerry Blake, Into the Sea
Glorija Lizde, F20.5
Gulia Berto, Fragments
Helio León, Marfa Sky
Hue Hale, He Suffers With His Nerves
Hugh Quigley, Hospes
Izabela Szczutkowska, Let’s Take the Wrong Way Home
James Forde, La Resistencia
James Forde, Let the Sun Shine in the Shadows
Jamin Keogh, Moyross Study
Jane Cummins, Marrow
Jialin Long, Red Illuminates
Joe Marner, Don’t Call Me Baby
Josef Kovac, Ephemeral Uncertainty
Julia Mejnertsen, Flatten
Justyna Kielbowicz, Dr. Nadia Kelbova
Kevin Griffin, King’s Road
Kevin Griffin, The Garden Series
Letizia Lopreiato, From the Front
Mark McGuinness, Dreaming of Figure Eights
Martina Cleary, Staring at a Painted Sky
Mary Furlong, One Day
Niamh Smith, Institutions of Home
Philip Arneill, Barred
Richard Gosnold, Paradise Lost I
Richard Gosnold, Paradise Lost II
Richard Gosnold, Paradise Lost III
Robert Ellis, Proverbs
Róisín White, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back
Rose Comiskey, Against the Tide
Ruth Connolly, Each Evening We See the Sun Set
Sarah Cullen, You Shall Have Exactly What You Want
Sarah Flynn, Útlendingur
Sarah Navan, Care in Progress
Sarah Pannell, Wayside
Sebastian F Mahon, The Transcendence of Innocent Objects
Shane Hynan, Beneath/Beofhód
Sibéal Riordan, An Ode to the Women Before Me
Steven Nestor, South of Cancer
Various Artists, A New Normal
Wally Cassidy, Rough Guide to Limerick
Zoe Hamill, Tony’s Ponys
