The Library Project bookshop remains open during Level 3 with the NSAI recommended precautions in place.

As The Library Project is also a gallery space, we welcome visitors to attend our upcoming exhibitions, while following the listed precautions. Here is what you can look forward to!

• 20 Aug-26 Sep Black Church Editions at The Library Project
• 3-25 October FUTURES Irish Talents 2020 at The Library Project
• 29 Oct-22 Nov HALFTONE Print Fair at The Library Project
  Upcoming Deadline for Artworks 4th October
• 5-22 Nov Tsundoku with the Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards and Kassel Dummy Award at The Library Project

...and to say thank you

all customers from today until the end of October will be entered into a draw. We will pick three names at random, at the end of the month, to win a PhotoIreland goody bag. The raffle is open to online and in-store customers, who will also be entered into the draw if they leave their contact information at the till.

Running 3-25 October
At The Library Project

This October, discover the most recent work from five contemporary Irish photographers at The Library Project: Becks Butler, Garry Loughlin, Mark McGuinness, Shia Conlon, and Vera Ryklova. These five Irish artists were selected to join the FUTURES platform in 2020 to represent Ireland.

“Each year, we look forward to discovering what artists PhotoIreland presents to the Futures platform, they are always exciting, relevant, diverse, a great representation of Irish contemporary photography, and deserve a bigger audience.”-Menno Liauw, Founder, Futures Photography

The editorial team and peer review panel of OVER Journal, welcomes submissions of:

- Papers: essays by any individuals or collaborators engaged in critical and cultural inquiry that address key issues around Photography and Visual Culture, including those deriving from other disciplines and interests.
Upcoming Deadline 30th September

- Articles or Interviews: whether at proposal stage or completed, by individuals or collaborators including journalists, writers, researchers, artists, curators, and other professionals such as designers, architects, urban planners, community activists, etc. whose critical practice is connected with issues of social change.

- Works: Artistic projects by creatives, photographers, visual artists, curators, researchers, thinkers, and any individuals working in and around contemporary image-based practices.

Submissions of Papers are accepted twice a year, and only between 1-28 February and 1-31st August. However, as an exception, in 2020 we are accepting submissions between 1-31 September.

Submissions of Articles or Interviews, and Works are open from now on and ongoing without deadline.

Submissions are free and we pay fees to all contributors. Please, help us share this call among your colleagues.

Running 5-31 October
Book events at FUTURES

Coming up in October, we invite you to join the Futures Photography talents online with the Futures Digital Festival: RESET.

Every year, the platform organises a main event with our artists and members, previously having taken place at Unseen Amsterdam. For 2020, this will take the form of a virtual festival with talks, exhibitions and other online activities. From the 5th to the 31st of October, the festival unfolds into five main programmes: The Expos, The Assembly, The Conversations, The Open Mic, and The Studio Visit.

UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENTS:

Launch of RESET
Monday 5 October 6pm
The collective You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You™ (Marco de Mutiis, Katrina Sluis and Jon Uriarte) will organise the quiz show ‘Who wants to be a photographer?’ to launch the RESET Digital Festival.

The Expos
In The Expos, the FUTURES talents are presented in two online exhibitions, hosted by Fotomat.

The exhibition RESET is curated by Salvatore Vitale and investigates the main theme with projects by seven of the platform's artists, selected from an internal open call: Julie Poly, Ela Polkowska, Eva O'Leary, Garry Loughlin, Sanne De Wilde, Dávid Biró, and Ana Zibelnik.

The showcase Futures Talents 2020 introduces the 59 artists of this year. The online show has been curated by trying to answer the question ‘What are emerging artists in Europe talking about today?’. Featuring this year's Irish talents: Becks Butler, Shia Conlon, Garry Loughlin, Mark McGuinness, and Vera Ryklova.

The Assembly
The Futures members organised a series of talks, taking place online every Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 4pm CEST. All talks will be available to the public via Zoom and streamed on social media channels.

Taking place on Thursday 8 October, PhotoIreland invited Lewis Bush (artist, educator) and Aisling Murray (Head of Programming, Science Gallery Dublin) into a conversation On Adaptation and Production. In his article ‘What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model?’ (published in Versopolis on 24th April, 2020), Bruno Latour proposes 6 key questions that are useful for individuals, artists, cultural producers, and institutions to ask of themselves. PhotoIreland invites Lewis Bush and Aisling Murray to take inspiration from these questions in order to review our shared inventory of our positions as we emerge into a post-pandemic world. What can we learn from the pandemic? What can we dispose of? What can we gain? How can we evolve so our work and our institutions don’t become obsolete? Should we interrupt our current modes of production?

See full schedule →