Call for Works: HALFTONE Print Fair 2023

Applications are now invited from fine art printers, illustrators, designers, photographers and any visual artists and creatives alike to submit works produced not earlier than 2021, to be displayed and sold at the HALFTONE print fair, at PhotoIreland’s Art bookshop, The Library Project, in Dublin’s Temple Bar.

Submissions should include the proposed works in any technique such as screenprint, stencil, risography, lithography, etching, inkjet printing, etc., without any limitation of approach or concept. All selected works will be on display during HALFTONE, from the opening at 12 noon on Saturday 4 November 2023, when they will go on sale.

Submissions Deadline: 6pm Sunday 1 October

September Sale at The Library Project

PhotoIreland co-curates FUTURES travelling exhibition

As member of the FUTURES Photography Platform, PhotoIreland are co-curators and hosts to the annual travelling exhibition. Along with our exhibition partners FOTODOK and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, we look forward to working with the selected artists from a FUTURES open call, responding to the theme of ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption.

The first of the exhibitions will launch at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest this October 2023 during the FUTURES Annual Event. The exhibition will then take place at PhotoIreland (Dublin) and FOTODOK (Utrecht).

The selected artists are: Antonio Guerra (ES), Dávid Biró (HU), Hiên Hoàng (VN/DE), Marta Pinto Machado (CV/PT), Tanja Engelberts (NL), Umberto Diecinove (IT), Yana Kononova (UA) and Yana Wernicke (DE). 

FUTURES: On the Verge publication
now available

The annual publication of FUTURES On the Verge is now available, published by our member colleagues at VOID.

On the Verge takes Charles Baudelaire’s famous letter of 1859—in which he outlines his contempt for photography—as a starting point to explore the role that photography and art can and should play in shaping the future. Eight writers have composed letters responding to Baudelaire to entertain, provoke, inspire and empower. Featured artists include artists nominated by PhotoIreland in previous years: Mark Duffy and Cian Burke, alongside their international colleagues Alice Pallot, Dániel Szalai, Julia Klewaniec, Pauline Hisbacq, and Ugo Woatzi.

Inspirational Arts and PhotoIreland shortlisted for Business to Arts Award

The Business to Arts Awards 2023 shortlist is out and we are very happy to share the news that Inspirational Arts and PhotoIreland have been shortlisted under the Best Long-Term Partnership supported by The Irish Times.
       Together we have brought to Ireland some of the most ambitious exhibitions, including those programmed in this year's festival, demonstrating what contemporary photography really looks like and exciting the local scene, whether through PhotoIreland, The Library Project, New Irish Works, HALFTONE, to list just a few of our projects.
       We work with Inspirational Arts since PhotoIreland Festival started in 2010, and a much deeper relationship was established in 2017, when they officially became our printing partners, bringing their excellence in the delivery of fine art printing.We are proud to align with the quality of their work, which has always been applauded by the artists and curators we engage with, to the extent that many long lasting relationships have been created during our collaborations, locally and internationally. We are lucky to have one of the best fine art printers in the world on our own doorstep.On a personal level, it’s a pleasure to work with Inspirational Arts; even under the most stressful deadlines, Jim, Ed, and Tim are able to work with kind words and attentive approach – professional and personal. We take the opportunity of this shortlist to share with you our appreciation for Inspirational Arts and to remind us all not to take for granted all the amazing professionals involved in the arts.

Read more about the awards in The Irish Times online →

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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