Introducing OVER Journal issue 2

Supported by the Arts Council Ireland and PhotoIreland, OVER Journal issue 2 launched on Thursday 29th July, presenting a substantial 256 pages of supreme content, bringing the hard work of over 30 writers, artists, and thinkers together on a unique publication - available at The Library Project and distributed globally. The superb cover features Jean Curran, with a back cover by Rafał Milach and the Archiwum Protestow Publicznych. Made in Ireland for the world to enjoy!

LIVE Critical Recipes:
Cooking Potato Stories

6pm (Irish time) Sat 31 July via Zoom

What can a potato tell us about ourselves? What does it say about the construction of national identity? What role can new narratives about the potato play in creating expanded social imaginaries? How can trans-local stories and food cultures be connected as an inroad to address forgotten colonial legacies and the wider context of political, social, and emotional relationships?

Artist Ana Núñez Rodríguez will expand on the current collection of stories to include those from Ireland. She has worked with a number of participants in an exchange of stories, as well as gathering archival images, articles, and written stories from Irish history. These will be told in this live event, with special guest, food historian, food writer, broadcaster and cook, Regina Sexton. 

Bite the Hand That Feeds You
at Rathfarnham Castle

Last days: closing 2nd August
At Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Opening Hours Mon-Sun 9:30am-5:30pm
Admissions Free

There is power in how we feed ourselves, with food being the cornerstone of cultures, ideologies, and principles. Eating or not eating can be an act of protest, feeding or not feeding — an act of control; food brings people together and pushes them apart. Through the presentation of current work and commissions, this year PhotoIreland Festival brings to audiences selected artists exploring this contentious, yet every day, topic.

With topics ranging from sustainability to colonisation, from hunger to overconsumption, trauma to technology, ethics to ideologies, and even surveillance capitalism, this exhibition brings together contemporary lens-based works, serving a cornucopia of engaging and relevant material. Featuring work from artists: Alan Phelan, Dániel Szalai, Gê Viana, Hans van der Meer, Hertta Kiiski, Ksenia Yurkova, and Sheng-Wen Lo. Image: Aisling McCoy

Young Milky Way Explorers Exhibition Guide

Have you picked up one of these guides? Do you have a young culture vulture at home? In response to Hertta Kiiski’s Milky Way installation, Dublin based visual artist Róisín White created an exhibition guide aimed at our younger visitors to investigate and navigate the artwork. The guide will encourage young people (and their families) to take a closer look at the exhibition, to consider the materials used (yes! you can touch this exhibit!), the themes and questions the work poses, and suggest ways that you can make your own artistic response when you get home. The guide is created especially as a response to Milky Way, currently exhibited as part of the group show Bite the Hand That Feeds You, at Rathfarnham Castle until 2nd August.

The guides are available in the gallery space and as a PDF online. Please share your response artworks with info@photoireland.org or you can tag the artist @how_fascinating and festival @photoirelandfst on social media ! All entries will be put into a raffle and three lucky explorers will be picked out of a hat to receive their own copy of Eyes Open by Susan Meiselas, thanks to The Library Project. 

Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation at The Library Project

Running 1-31 July
At The Library Project, Dublin
Opening Hours Mon-Fri 11am-6pm | Sat-Sun 12-6pm
Presented with the kind support of Alliance Française Dublin.

The photographer Mathieu Asselin explores the controversial and infamous agricultural company, Monsanto, through investigative photography in this acclaimed project. Looking at the company’s past and present, this investigation aims to picture what Monsanto’s® near future will look like. The exhibition for the festival focuses on the process of the photobook. Beyond the distinguished editorial object, this publication enshrines an exceptional documentary process conducted for five years through Vietnam and the United States, which portrays an overwhelming portrait of the ancient and current practices of this giant chemical industry. A rare opportunity to see the artist's notes and materials, including the 3 dummy photobooks that preceded the final publication.

Video on Demand

With all but one online event already available on-demand, you can catch up with the many and varied events that the festival offered this year, from the conversation with Mathieu Asselin and Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo around Monsanto, to Deirdre O'Mahony's 'Oppression Digestion', and Hans van der Meer, Niall Sargent, and Sinéad Moran. A total of 14 videos for you to enjoy whenever you want!

AEMI screening programme:
watch it free until 31st July 

Vacancy for Arts Administrator
for PhotoIreland

PhotoIreland is looking for the right individual to become integral part of the core team; a highly motivated, ambitious, and focused person with experience in the Arts, eager to progress as the company expands its operations in support of Photography in Ireland. Image: Emilia Krysztofiak

Aesthetica Art Prize

Aesthetica invites artists to enter the annual Art Prize. Open to all practitioners working at any level, including students. Prizes include a group exhibition in York, editorial coverage in Aesthetica magazine and website, up to £5000 prize money, publication in Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists, and much more!
Apply before the Summer Deadline of 31 August.