Join us for the launch of ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption

Launch 6pm Thu 17 October 2024
Exhibition Run 18 October–10 November 2024
At North Bank House, Coopers Cross Campus, corner of Castleforbes and Sheriff Street, Dublin 1

Artists: Antonio Guerra (ES), Dávid Biró (HU), Hiền Hoàng (VE/DE), Marta Pinto Machado (CV/PT), Tanja Engelberts (NL), Umberto Diecinove (IT), Yana Kononova (UA), Yana Wernicke (DE)

ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption is a group exhibition, an anthology of diverse photographic projects focusing on energy, one of the most relevant and complex topics today, and one which everybody has to deal with either as a private or as a public matter. The show comprises work by eight international artists from the FUTURES Photography Platform, of which PhotoIreland is the Irish representative.

FUTURES Photography Platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and PhotoIreland's participation is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through the Co-Funding Award.

FUTURES Meet Up in Dublin Programme

Meet Up Events 18-19 October 2024.
At North Bank House, Coopers Cross Campus, corner of Castleforbes and Sheriff Street, Dublin 1

All public events are free, and all welcome, but booking is mandatory.

The FUTURES Meet Up event acts as a get together point for invited international and local professionals and local artists. As part of the FUTURES Meet Up in Dublin, PhotoIreland is programming a three-day programme of private and public events, including the Critical Practice Reviews, talks, and exhibition tour.

During the Meet-up, attendees will discover the work and practice of FUTURES talents and meet with other international and local professionals and artists. It is the ideal chance to exchange ideas and network.

To the Meet Up in Dublin, we welcome international exhibition artists Antonio Guerra, Dávid Biró, Hiền Hoàng, Marta Pinto Machado, Tanja Engelberts, Umberto Diecinove, Yana Kononova, and Yana Wernicke and professionals Anna O’Sullivan, Chris Clarke, Emese Musci, Henri Badaröh, Mariama Attah, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Pádraic E. Moore, Sara Muthi, Sarah McAuliffe, and Tiago Casanova.

Image: Exhibition Tour at ENERGY Exhibition at Capa Center, Budapest, 2023. Courtesy of Capa Center.

FUTURES Photography Platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and PhotoIreland's participation is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through the Co-Funding Award.

Call for Works: HALFTONE Print Fair

Deadline to apply 6pm Sunday 6th October

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 2022, to be displayed and sold at the annual HALFTONE Print Fair.

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 2 November 2024, when they will go on sale.

HALFTONE is an initiative by PhotoIreland hosted every year at The Library Project. The fair brings together a large selection of works by established and emerging artists, showcasing Ireland’s exciting Art scene. Visitors can enjoy a great selection of artworks from many disciplines and practices including etchings, intaglios, reliefs, screenprints, monotypes, risographs, photographs and more!

With your help, PhotoIreland has raised through HALFTONE over €87,000 for artists since 2015, supporting and promoting the practice of over 800 participating artists to date, shipping their work internationally, and contributing to public and private collections.

Photobook Launch: All things laid dormant,
Benedetta Casagrande

When from 6pm to 7pm on Saturday 19th October
At The Library Project

Winner of the Luigi Ghirri Prize 2024 and of the FE+SK Book Award, All things laid dormant is presented in Ireland by artist Benedetta Casagrande. Join us 6-7pm on Saturday 19th October at The Library Project to celebrate its launch and meet the artist.

All things laid dormant questions the ways in which we relate to other animals, the space they occupy in our personal and collective imagination, intraspecific coexistence, and the possibility of constructing new forms of kinship and intimacy in a context of mass extinction. Articulated through a series of encounters with the non-human world mediated by the implicit ambiguity of photography, that simultaneously facilitates and hinders contact, All things laid dormant is both an ode and a lament, an act of love and an expression of mourning that embodies the suffering of loss and the desire to find a place and a sense of belonging within the fragile context of our time.

Copies of the book will be available to buy and sign on the night and can be purchased online at The Library Project.

The Library Project re-opens:
September Highlights

The Library Project bookshop re-opens and is excited to welcome its visitors back from this Saturday 5th October!

As Ireland’s Art Bookshop, we have over 800 Photobook titles from Ireland and beyond, including some coveted collector’s items, contemporary artist books, magazines and zines - local and international, carefully selected and fun titles for young people, as well as a diverse range of books on design, architecture, photo and art texts and theory, and other essentials for creatives.

Check out our highlights and recommendations for October:

-Now is the Time is a collaborative work between Irish artist Dorje de Burgh and writer Una Mullally. Together they have published zine that serves as an object of solidarity and also a donation mechanism (all proceeds, not a percentage) for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective, raising money to help and assist loved ones in Gaza.
-A fresh re-stock from Setanta Books brings new and popular titles, including a batch of Bi-Monthlies, an ongoing series of limited edition publications featuring a new unpublished artist, with the latest title from Fredrick Axling
-Exclusive in Ireland an all the way from India, we now stock Cocoa and Jasmine, an architecture focused magazine focusing on the global south and working at the intersection of arts, craft, design and travel
-Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to invoke a profound dimension of reality that transcends the limitations of language. Comprising essays, reflections, and artworks from a group of international artists and curators
-All the way from Tokyo, Troublemakers magazine joins our bookshelves to tell the stories of misfits. This issue features Irish singer-songwriter Christian Cohle and Tamara Eckhardt’s photo-documentary The Children of Carrowbrowne
-The latest issue of Roots to Fruits magazine: Congada is here dedicated to exploring the role that a single form of music or sonic practice plays in migration, culture and resistance.
-Now stocking BITS Magazine — a joint collaboration between partners Marl and Isla, who set out to create an illustration magazine with puzzles, games and activities, reminiscent of the magazines we had as kids. The latest issue focuses on Queer Living

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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