PhotoIreland announces exciting changes
in 2024

As part of its continuing growth, PhotoIreland is excited to announce that a number of significant changes are coming in 2024. The staff and Board of Directors are eager to share an update to keep everyone informed about the momentous developments happening behind the scenes. Read the full text online and stay informed.

PhotoIreland Board of Directors:
Call for expressions of interest

PhotoIreland seeks expressions of interest from individuals to join its Board Of Directors to act as trustees as the organisation becomes a charity and expands its operations. 
          Interested individuals should submit a expression of interest alongside a CV to boardofdirectors@photoireland.org before midnight 21 June 2024. 

TLP Editions 2024 Artists Announced

The artists selected in the TLP Editions 2024 call for proposals have been announced and you can consult the list online.
          Comprising already 66 publications, the TLP Editions series provides a growing collection of accessible and inexpensive publications featuring a broad variety of contemporary photographic practices. Running since 2017, PhotoIreland continues the publishing project in 2024 and 2025 to complete a second box with the next publications. This collection is a great addition to public and university libraries, as much as public and private collections, and they help us promote artists within and outside Ireland.
          Find out more about the TLP Editions and discover the artists selected in 2024.

New TLP Edition:
Sarah Navan, Care in Progress

The first of the TLP Editions in 2024 is here, and it is a special 88 pages publication presenting the very personal work of Sarah Navan. 
          Sarah Navan’s current and ongoing body of work titled Care in Progress is an in-depth exploration of coming out of a Bipolar manic episode and starting afresh. Sarah reveals the darkness and light of Bipolar Disorder through viscerally raw and emotionally ravishing documentary snapshots. Her work documents moods such as depression, suicide idealisation, hypersexuality and apprehensiveness. Juxtaposed with bouts of euphoria and elation or simply being content with life.
          The publication will be available from 1st June exclusively at The Library Project in an edition of 200. 

Photobook launch:
Young Dubliners by Daragh Soden

Launch 1.30pm on Saturday June 15th
At The Library Project 

Ten years on, the iconic photograph of a young couple at the back of the bus still resonates. Featuring previously unpublished photographs, Daragh Soden’s Young Dubliners book is introduced by award winning Irish author Colin Barrett. Join us at 1.30pm on Saturday June 15th at The Library Project to celebrate its launch.

The Library Project May Highlights

As Ireland’s Art Bookshop, we have over 800 Photobook titles from Ireland and beyond, including some coveted collector’s items, contemporary artist books, over 200 titles in 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.

In addition to pre-ordering Sarah Navan Care in Progress, check out May highlights and recommendations:

- Girls Night, Eimear Lynch's first photo book, exploring girlhood through Irish teen rituals and intimate spaces of bedrooms, bathrooms and dance halls across the country
- Back to Basics, a guide to ecological photochemistry by The Sustainable Darkroom and Curiosolab
- Participatory Design Thinking in Architecture & Urban Planning provides literature of the social movements that led to the rise of alternative design methods
- Soil Lab, a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- Trophy Lives, where drawing on a wide range of cultural references, critic Philippa Snow asks whether all great, or iconic, celebrities can be considered technically self-authored artworks in and of themselves

All these and much more at The Library Project online and in our shop at 4 Temple Bar Street, Dublin 2.

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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