Professional Weekend:
Critical Practice Reviews

Running 10am-1pm Fri 30 June and Sat 1 July
At Dublin Castle

The Professional Weekend is a highly fruitful developmental strand of the festival, providing direct networking opportunities for artists and Irish and international arts professionals through events such as talks, presentations, and Critical Practice Reviews.

Bookings are now open for the two Critical Practice Reviews days on Friday 30th June and Saturday 1st July. The timetable each day runs from 10am to 1pm with three session of 20 minutes each hour. The fee per session is €15 and this year they are arranged as private one-on-one meetings. This opportunity is open to artists of all levels.

WHAT LAST YEAR’S PARTICIPANTS SAID

“I wanted to thank you so much for introducing me to Sarah McAuliffe the curator from the Royal Hibernian Academy during the Professional Weekend. I am delighted to share I am exhibiting in August 2023. I am absolutely thrilled!”
— Debbie Castro, Artist

This Professional Weekend, brilliantly organised, was a beautiful opportunity to meet fellow practitioners, from Ireland to Australia. The Critical Practice Reviews, small group meetings with Irish artists, were a wonderful platform for exchange. It also introduced me to Shane Hynan’s practice, whose work I was thrilled to include in an exhibition in Germany only half a year later. Thank you, PhotoIreland!
— Cale Garrido, Independent Photo Editor and Curator

“We are fresh from launching Bindi Vora’s major new book Mountain of Salt at Offprint London 2023 – a project that came to me/us via meeting Bindi at PhotoIreland. I’m so very grateful for my experience, I have been closely following a number of photographers that I met during that time”
— Justine Ellis, Director, Perimeter Books

Check the full details, information on the invited reviewers, and FAQ at the link below

Launch of PhotoIreland Festival 2023
RSVP now open

Launch 6pm to 8pm Fri 30th June
Speeches 6.30pm 
Performance by Tobi Balogun 7pm 
Running 1st July-27 August 
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle

Entry to the PhotoIreland Festival Launch is free, but bookings are mandatory. Limited tickets available 

Join us on the 30th June to celebrate the 14th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, Ireland's first international festival of Photography and Visual Culture, and meet the curators and artists behind this year's edition!

Vibrant, friendly, all-inclusive: a festival for all to enjoy, this year’s edition brings to Ireland contemporary photography by celebrated artists from diverse cultural backgrounds through a series of guest-curated exhibitions by internationally established curators.

Ahead of this year's website and programme launch, sneak a peek at what's coming at 2023.photoireland.org

Tsundoku Art Book Fair

Running 13-16 July
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle

PhotoIreland sees the return of its book fair, first launched in 2011, presented now as the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, taking place 13-16 July during PhotoIreland Festival!

Tsundoku will feature a broad range of over 100 publishers, artists and collectives, small presses, and institutions. Keep an eye out for the full calendar of events, such as book launches, speed pitching events, discussions, performances, workshops, exhibitions and special projects that highlight interdisciplinary artists’ publishing practices.

PhotoIreland Festival 2023:
Call for Volunteers

PhotoIreland Festival 2023 launches 30th June and runs until the end of August. We are now looking for enthusiastic and reliable volunteers to join the festival team. If you have an interest in contemporary art, curation, festivals, event management, and want to learn from behind the scenes of an exciting arts organisation,
we want to hear from you!

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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