Entering the last week of
PhotoIreland Festival 2022!

Enjoy the last week 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 with Eamonn Doyle's exhibition TWO at The Library Project until August 28th.

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!

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.

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.

Photobook Launch: The Drift /// Parallax, Brian Teeling

Launch 6pm Thu 25th August
At The Dean Arts Studios, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin

The Drift/Parallax is a triptych of publications based on the stars Arcturus, Rigel, and Vega. This series uses image and text to consider constructs of masculinity and how they intersect with sexualities, queer working-class identity, and remnants of memory enlarged into cosmic scale. Hauntology, psychogeography, depression, the presence of absence in portraiture, astronomy and personal archives inform this series.

Download your copy of
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.

You can pick up a free print copy at the exhibition venue of The Printworks or order a copy through The Library Project (free, just pay postage).

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.

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