PhotoIreland in Amsterdam presenting Irish Artists

Despite an uncertain and hectic year, PhotoIreland is back to Amsterdam this September! Earlier this year, as the Irish member of FUTURES, a Photography Platform co-funded by Creative Europe, PhotoIreland put forward five Ireland-based artists to join the platform: Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Clare Lyons, Jialin Long, and Mark Duffy.

This year, Futures and Melkweg Expo present a festival entitled HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative which will take place both in Amsterdam and online. The event celebrates the new names of contemporary photography with talks, exhibitions and other activities. Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the festival brings together the work of over 70 artists and the expertise of the 13 European photography institutions that are part of the Futures platform.

As part of the HYBRIDS event, hosted at Melkweg will be the HYBRIDS Exhibition of selected artists and a Showcase of the 2021 talents. In addition, an intensive and productive Talk Programme will take place 16-17th September, within which we are looking forward to participating in two panels. All talks and panels will take place at Melkweg Expo, in Amsterdam and live-streamed on the FUTURES social media.

HALFTONE 2021 Call for Works

Artists and Creatives: Submit your works to HALFTONE Print Fair! Applications are now invited from fine art printers, illustrators, designers, photographers and any artists and creatives alike to submit works produced not earlier than 2019, to be displayed and sold at the HALFTONE print fair.

Submissions can include techniques such as dye transfer print, screenprint, stencil, risography, lithography, etching, inkjet printing, to name a few, without any limitation of approach or concept. All selected works will be on display during HALFTONE, at The Library Project, launching on Monday 1 November 2021, running until 28th November.

Deadline to Submit midnight Sunday 10 October

OVER Journal issue 2 now available

The latest issue of OVER Journal is here, lavishly presenting a rich eclectic selection of contemporary art practices from very diverse backgrounds and concerns. Consolidating its distinctive voice after a successful start, the second issue offers 256 pages of content furnished with three gorgeous papers stocks, making it a truly thought-provoking, stimulating, tactile, and visual experience.

OVER Journal provides a uniquely wholesome look at art practices, bringing together the work and ideas of artists, researchers, and writers into a one-of-a-kind publication focused on Photography and Visual Culture. It navigates the reader from a text rich section with a variety of notable reflections, to a selection of photographic works, all representing the diversity of approached that constitutes contemporary practices.

FUTURES Irish Talents 2021 at

The Library Project

Running: 7-24 October
At: The Library Project

Discover the most recent work from five contemporary Irish photographers in this exhibition at The Library Project, presented as part of the FUTURES Photography Platform, an initiative co-funded by Creative Europe. 

In 2021, PhotoIreland proposed five Irish and Ireland-based artists: Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Clare Lyons, Jialin Long, and Mark Duffy. Their most recent projects will be showcased at The Library Project this October.

Image: Audrey Gillespie, This Hurts

Irish PARALLEL Artists in Europe

this Autumn

Irish artists Mark McGuinness and Cian Burke are enjoying exhibitions in Lisbon, Portugal and Budapest, Hungary this Autumn with thanks to the PARALLEL European Photographic Platform.

Mark McGuinness is exhibiting his latest work at the PARALLEL Review Lisbon event, in the exhibition titled Extended Atlas, alongside Cian Burke and additionally at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in an exhibition curated by Lexington Davis Of This World – Envisioning Alternative Cartographies.