PhotoIreland Festival 2022 continues throughout August, so why not enjoy 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!

Professional Weekend: a total success!

It has been a blast to host over 125 artists and international guests during the PhotoIreland Festival Professional Weekend, #OpeningTheGates to new practices, new ideas, and new opportunities. It is the first time Ireland celebrated a gathering of such scale and ambition to support the discipline and the feedback has been super positive. We remain excited to keep working in support of the sector in our unique and creative ways.

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.

Think Tank: On Histories II

10am-5:15pm Fri 29 July
At The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Free — booking essential via Eventbrite

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 event series comprises talks on contemporary Irish photography,  proposing to explore the key events, exhibitions and practices that have shaped contemporary Irish photography from the 1990s to the present.

Speakers: Ángel Luis González, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Karl Burke, Roseanne Lynch, David Flood, Basil Al-Rawi, Anthony Haughey, and Fiona Hackett.

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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