The New Irish Works series 2023-24 continues at The Library Project in December with Martin Seeds

Launch 6pm on Thursday 7 December
Running 4-24 December
At The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar Street, D02 YK53.

‘No Country For Young Men’ looks back, via appropriation, at a series of found portraits in a Belfast school yearbook from 1965.  This was a time, a few years before “The Troubles” started, when political tensions in Northern Ireland were rising and trouble was brewing.  Seeds’ act of appropriation places these 1960s school portraits into our current moment, and from our historical vantage point asks us to consider how individual lives in Northern Ireland were affected by the backdrop of a violent conflict that would last for 30 years. Martin Seeds will do a short reading at 6.30pm on Thursday 7 December to mark the opening of the exhibition.

Photobook Launch: Lay Her Down Upon Her Back, by Róisín White

Launch 6pm on Thursday 14th December
At The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar Street, D02 YK53.

Orders are now open for Róisín White's new photobook in advance of the launch at 6pm on Thursday 14th December at The Library Project. Winner of Landskrona Foto and Breadfield Dummy Award, the book brings together the artist’s own photographs, found archival material, handmade drawings, oral accounts and extracts from literature, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back looks at the history of medical mistreatment and uneven power relations between male doctors and female patients through a type of photography where evidence itself plays the role of symptom. For both in photography and in hysteria it is the surface that carries meaning and depth, providing the space onto which meaning plays out.

Call for PhotoIreland Wiki:
review and update your details 

PhotoIreland calls artists and organisations to review the information provided through the Wiki during the month of December and consider any necessary updates to the records.
It is good to be aware that the PhotoIreland Wiki is constantly used by curators, researchers, and other art professionals, as much as the general public, to gather information about different aspects of Photography in Ireland.

New Stock for Christmas at
The Library Project 

With three more weekends until the big day, check into The Library Project for new and old titles, Irish and international, in Design, Architecture, Photobooks, and books for young people. With more new stock coming in every day, you can keep an eye out at thelibraryproject.ie or pop into Ireland's Art Bookshop in person for a browse and a recommendation! Keep an eye on our Instagram account for daily updates in new arrivals.

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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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