Enjoy the final days of
PhotoIreland Festival 2022!

We are entering the final days of this year's monumental PhotoIreland Festival — its biggest and most visited edition yet. Don't miss the main exhibition Images Are All We Have, at The Printworks in Dublin Castle, closing on August 25th, while the festival continues elsewhere until August 28th with Eamonn Doyle's exhibition TWO at The Library Project. 

Don't forget to use our What's on Today? feature to make the most of your visit.

In case you are not able to travel to Dublin to enjoy PhotoIreland Festival 2022, check out these videos offering a flyby of the exhibitions in the main venue and a look at the Professional Weekend. Enjoy!

Artists Talk Series: RADAR Artists 2022

Running 12-1:30pm Sat 20 August
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle

Join us in conversation with the RADAR Artists 2022 to find out about their artistic practice, their graduate projects, and their future plans. We will discuss the opportunities that present ahead in their career and comment about strategies to prevent a precarious future for young artists.

The 2022 recipients of the RADAR Research and Development Artist Residency have been selected by Inspirational Arts and PhotoIreland from nominations by eleven Photography programmes across the island. They are Ayesha Ahmad, Daniel Breen, Gareth Byrne, Ryan Allen, and Sarah Navan

Image: Ryan Allen, from Fathom

Think Tank —
Photography: an Empathetic Gesture?

Running 10am-5:30pm Thu 25 August
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle

Speakers: Ailbhe Greaney, Alice Maher, Aoife Herrity, Dr. Bernadine Brady, Chad Alexander, Clara Scullion, Daniel McCabe, David Copeland, Emma Campbell, Fiona Larkin, Hannah Starkey, Household Belfast, Jane Cummins, Jill Quigley, John Post, Letizia Lopreiato, Rachel Glass, Ryan Allen, Sarah McAuliffe, Shannon Ritchie, Shauna Kinsella, Tara Raftovich, Teresa Lyle, and Yvette Monahan.

The objective of this Think Tank is to begin to understand the ways in which the gestural capacities of contemporary photography and its associated forms are used as language in the context of the mutable and multiple ‘States’ within which we live now.

This workshop is convened by Ailbhe Greaney with PhotoIreland and Ulster University.

Now Available: 
A Young Person's Guide to the Exhibition

You can now pick up A Young Person's Guide to the Exhibition in the main Images Are All We Have exhibition of the festival or check out the online PDF version!

This exhibition guide was made in consultation with a group of young people, who are alumni of The Ark’s Children’s Council. Over the past few months and as part of their Photo Club, they have met up and looked at photographs and discussed what exactly is going on with contemporary photography in Ireland.

Together, they designed this guide to the exhibition so that they can help other young people, and their families, learn a little bit more about photography, maybe this will help them look at the photographs in a new way. They don’t think that hard subjects should just be left for the grown-ups!

The participants in Photo Club were: Thomas, Kaelan, Aoileann, Manus, Rua, Ke Qiao, Zoë, Meabh, Emeraude, and Hugo. This project was facilitated by Róisín White.

TWO by Eamonn Doyle
at The Library Project

The number TWO in a series of publications by Eamonn Doyle launched at The Library Project in July and continues as an installation dedicated to all his photobooks to date, running until 28th August.

Order OVER Journal:
The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture for the 21st Century

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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