September at the
International Centre for the Image

Culture Night
5-9pm Friday 19 Sep 2025

Celebrate our first Culture Night on the 19th September in Coopers Cross, with free events and exhibitions at the International Centre for the Image!


We are extending our current exhibitions Foreword and Archive of Modern Conflict until the 21st September, their late night opening will be accompanied by a programme of events for the night.

Schedule
5pm Late night exhibition opening
6-7pm Artist Studio visits with Evanna Devine, Emma O’Brien, and Vera Ryklova
7-7:30pm Exhibition tour
7:30-9pm Music, mingling, and refreshments.

Curatorial Tour
12pm Saturday 13 Sep 2025

Join us for the final curatorial tour of the current exhibition programme. A great opportunity to find out more about the work of the 17 artists involved in the inaugural exhibition of Ireland’s new cultural space.

Everyone is welcome to join the free curatorial tours with co-curators Ángel Luis González and Julia Gelezova, ask questions and share thoughts in a friendly and accessible environment.

Tours are free and no booking necessary.

Call for Works: HALFTONE Print Fair

The 11th Edition of HALFTONE Print Fair will be hosted for its longest run period to date of 28 November 2025–25 January 2026 at The Library Project.

HALFTONE is an initiative by PhotoIreland, hosted every year at The Library Project. Every edition, the fair brings together a large selection of works by established and emerging artists, showcasing Ireland’s exciting art scene. PhotoIreland has raised almost €100,000 for artists through HALFTONE 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.

Applications are now invited from fine art printers, illustrators, designers, photographers, and all visual artists and creatives to submit works produced since 2023, to be displayed and sold at the HALFTONE Print Fair.

Submissions Deadline: 6pm Sunday 19 October 2025

Open Call: Female in Focus

PhotoIreland is collaborating with British Journal of Photography on the sixth edition of Female in Focus photographic award. An international jury will select 20 single images and two bodies of work, which will be exhibited in a group show in Dublin with PhotoIreland and 10-14 Gallery in London.⁠

For this edition of the award, photographers are invited to respond to the theme of ‘On the Cusp’. This theme looks at both personal and international turning points, whether that be moments of revolution, revelation, or transformation. It considers ideas such as ageing, climate change, rapid developments in technology, and political shifts. The anticipation of what comes next.

Photographers located in non-high-income countries can apply to Female in Focus for free.

Deadline to submit: 6 November 2025

Pre-Orders: OVER Journal issue 4

Pre-orders are now open for OVER Journal 4, launching and shipping from 3rd October.

OVER journal critically focuses on aspects often overlooked that affect the discipline, zooming out to observe the whole scene, to analyse what exactly is happening, what power relationships are at play. It is about preventing the repetition of obsolete and flawed structures, as much as highlighting the work of those who constructively are expanding what we still call Photography into new horizons. More than a portfolio magazine, it is a space for reflection on new practices and new ways of thinking.

Cover Image: Still from 'Uncensored Lilac' (2024), by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan.

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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