PhotoIreland Festival 2022 is off to an incredible start with the launch of the main exhibition Images Are All We Have, featuring over 300 artworks by 200 artists - an incredible comprehensive survey of Irish photographic art practices, with many new, as well as established, voices. The show is presented at The Printworks, Dublin Castle, where PhotoIreland first launched its public-facing research project, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, back in 2019. It is free and NOT TO BE MISSED!

Ladies & Gentlemen, Daragh Soden

Running 9 Jul-6 Aug
At Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham, D14 K3T6

Daragh Soden’s Ladies & Gentlemen brings to public view for the first time a new body of work by the Dublin born artist; it is a subversive series of large format portraits that raises questions around gender roles, photographer-subject relationships and the performativity of identity.

The work both documents and questions queer individuals’ performance of their own unique identities. Similarly, Soden sets out to question himself. As a queer person, he can relate to the subjects, however, there always remains a ‘distance’ between subject and photographer.

Installation Image by Daragh Soden

Think Tank: On Histories I

10am-5pm Fri 22 July
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Free — booking essential via Eventbrite

Photography, Partition and After: Photographies and Histories of Ireland in the Short 20th Century.

In the context of the 13th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, which proposes a conversation ‘On the History and Practice of Photography in Ireland’, a series of Think Tanks are being hosted to tease out the complexities of the History as much as of the discipline. The first in the series, convened by Justin Carville, proposes to explore histories of photographic practices, technologies, exhibitions and archives from 1910 to 1990.

Speakers: Ann Curran, Donna Gilligan, Fiona Loughnane, Gail Baylis, Justin Carville, Justine Murphy, Lucy Wray, and Orla Fitzpatrick.

Tour: New Irish Works and On Portraiture

Tour 1pm Sun 24 July
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Free — booking essential via Eventbrite

As the New Irish Works and On Portraiture shows come to an end this Sunday 24th, we invite you to partake in a walkthrough tour with PhotoIreland's Director, Ángel Luis González, in the presence of some of the artists.

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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