New Irish Works: Call now open

The call to apply to the 5th edition of New Irish Works is now open and the deadline is Monday 3rd March 2025.
    The call seeks applications from all photographers and artists critically engaged in image making, based on the island of Ireland and those Irish artists developing their practice abroad, regardless of age and career stage. New Irish Works is a unique artist support programme run since 2013 by PhotoIreland in three-year cycles, generating a growing set of professional development opportunities for participant lens-based practitioners.
    For a balanced and transparent outcome, a jury is set in place to review the submissions and select a number of projects. The jury is strategically composed of national and international experts from a diversity of Art fields and with a variety of specialisations.

PhotoIreland 2024: A Year in Review

PhotoIreland closed 2024 having completed once again a substantial series of critical projects and events in Ireland and abroad. With the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and Creative Europe, these projects were brought to realisation with PhotoIreland’s unique approach and characteristic energy.
    The year 2024 was one of transformations. Due to momentous developments happening behind the scenes there were a number of significant changes to our programming. As the year has come to an end, we are happy to share news of the progression onto the next phase of a milestone development for PhotoIreland, with an exciting announcement coming in 2025.
    Meanwhile, we review in this post some of the projects we completed in 2024, part of PhotoIreland’s 360 degrees support framework, focused on artists, the artform and audiences. These have ranged from supporting artists with developmental programmes to publicly celebrating their work in events and exhibitions around the world.

Celebrate John Gunn's 90th
at The Library Project

Deadline for Submissions 28 February 2025
Launch 6pm Friday 21 March 2025
Running 22-23 March 2025
At The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar Street, Dublin

As one of Dublin’s most loved personalities, John Gunn is also one of the most photographed people of Dublin. To celebrate his 90th birthday this March, PhotoIreland is pleased to host an exhibition at The Library Project celebrating John Gunn’s life.
    We want to hear from artists and photographers around Ireland and beyond who have captured John’s personality over the years. Do you have a portrait of John Gunn you took recently or long ago, or want to share a thought, a note, or an anecdote about him for this exhibition? Send these to us and let’s celebrate together the personality that John Gunn is on his 90th Birthday! From amongst all the submissions, we will select and print a number of images and texts that will be on display at The Library Project from 21st to 23rd March.

February at The Library Project

This February, The Library Project art bookshop closes to accommodate the exhibition Out of Time by Black Church Print Studio, curated by Áine O'Hara.

Bookshop visitors can still browse and shop online at thelibraryproject.ie. Free national shipping is offered on all orders over €30, competitive international postage rates, and free collections are being facilitated. 

The bookshop will fully re-open on the 1st March. Check out some of our personalised recommendations below to get you through February!

    TLP Editions continue to expand, with the latest from Evanna Devine's Every Glove proposing the profound impact of a community-driven boxing club in Newry, a region facing economic hardship and cultural divisions. John Foley's Peripheral Beliefs Part 1 and Part 2, explore traditional Catholic practices and how they continue to endure in a more diverse and secularised Ireland.
    Ties That Bind—Fictions, Orthodoxies and Interdependencies is the latest publication from FUTURES. It is an anthology that rethinks attachment and social power relations within family, state, friendship, identities and communities through passion, intoxication, exhaustion, desire, devotion, aid and intimacy in private and public spheres.
    Stir the Pot is a project constituting a celebration of established and emerging artists, working with images and other creative disciplines, and is a culmination of solace-seeking, political fervour, and paths taken towards nourishment and healing.
    The Lives of Images is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within a wider set of cultural practices. Volume 1 focuses on Repetition, Reproduction, and Circulation of images, while Volume 2 considers their Analogy, Attunement, and Attention
    Hot off the press, the highly in demand series by the Irish Architecture Foundation and Dpr-barcelona has released Curating Ecologies on Architecture and Tender and Toxic Tales. Grab them while stocks last!
    The collaborative publication Now is the Time by Dorje de Burgh and Una Mullally is re-stocked. The zine serves as an object of solidarity and also a donation mechanism for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective.

Do you know what PhotoIreland does?

PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support system and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. These include events such as PhotoIreland Festival and Halftone print fair amongst others; resources such as the PhotoIreland Collection, a specialised research library of photobooks, and Ireland’s Art Bookshop, The Library Project; via publishing with projects such as OVER Journal and TLP Editions; professional development support through networking and consultancy opportunities; and empowering early and mid-career photographers via our international partnerships, most relevantly through Creative Europe co-funded platforms such as FUTURES and Parallel.

Find out more about PhotoIreland at photoireland.org
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