Launch 6pm Wed 8 July – Irish Time
Performance 6:30pm Wed 8 July
Book your ticket here

The 11th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, entitled ON/OFF, combines a programme of online and offline activities and exhibitions, free for all audiences.

Join us for the launch via Zoom at 6pm on Wednesday 8 July, with an introduction by Director Ángel Luis González, followed by a performance by Albanian Berlin-based artist Anna Ehrenstein On Decolonising Lens-based Practices from 6.30pm.

To receive the Zoom login details closer to the date, book your ticket now.

Find out the full programme →

SITUATION #202: The Googlified Image
Mario Santamaría: Explore the Non-Imaginary Museum!
6pm Sat 11 July – Irish Time
Virtual journey — Live Streamed via 2020.photoireland.org

In his work The Non-Imaginary Museum, as part of his ongoing Trolling Google Art Project, the Spanish artist Mario Santamaría exposes the problematic of copyright infringements that ultimately resulted in blurred images and thus ruptures in Google Arts & Culture’s promise of endless accessibility and freedom of movement through virtual documentation.

After giving an insight into his practice and over seven years of experience in exploring museums online, join Santamaría on his unexpected, virtual journey around iconic cultural landmarks, copyright violations and other incongruities of the platform.

As part of the current exhibition SITUATIONS/The Right to Look and PhotoIreland Festival 2020: ON/OFF, the curatorial team of Fotomuseum Winterthur in collaboration with PhotoIreland, invited the artists Geraldine Juárez and Mario Santamaría to critically look at the hidden power dynamics behind the Google Arts & Culture Project, as well as the perpetuation and reinforcement of Western capitalist and colonial gazes which continue to shape knowledge formation. What happens if digital curation and art history is left to corporations? At whose advantage and whose expense is the Google Cultural Institute operating?

Find out the full programme →

Launch 6pm Sat 18 July—Irish Time

Today, we have hit PRINT on the first ever issue of OVER Journal! OVER is a new international publication from PhotoIreland that proposes its readers a more wholesome, honest, and critical observation and enjoyment of lens-based, contemporary practices, with visual culture and critical thinking at its core.

The issue is currently available to pre-order exclusively online at thelibraryproject.ie and will be available from The Library Project from the day of launch.

Find out more and pre-order →

The Library Project has re-opened and is welcoming visitors,  currently operating under new hours:

Mon-Tue Closed | Wed-Fri 11am-6pm | Sat-Sun 12-4pm

We have some very special new Photobooks, including Zanjir by Amak Mahmoodian, The Living Mountain by Awoiska van der Molen, and Thank You Mum by Charlotte Mano. New magazines include The Lissome on eco-friendly perspectives in fashion, OOF Magazine on Art and Football, and Milky Mag on creative women and food.

We also have a new addition to the store of the themed Book Bundles containing carefully selected materials at a discount. The latest in the series: the Music Bundle and the Classics Photobook Bundle, check it out! These are changing regularly, so grab if you like something and feel free to let us know what you want to see included in upcoming bundles.
Postage on all Book Bundles only €2.95 within Ireland!

See what's new in Art and Critical Theory →
Browse the latest Photobooks →
Check out the new Book Bundles →
Browse the whole store →